High-speed police chases have killed thousands of innocent bystanders

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http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/deputy-shoots-helicopter-suspect-fleeing-freeway-n430216

Quote:SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — A driver who led authorities on a 100-mph freeway chase was struck by gunfire from a San Bernardino County sheriff's helicopter before dying, the agency confirmed Saturday.

However, the official cause of death will await an autopsy, a Sheriff's Department statement said. It didn't indicate how many times the driver was wounded.

Friday's chase began in Devore, east of Los Angeles, when deputies tried to pull over a man believed to have committed a home invasion robbery there a day earlier, authorities said.

The beige Chevrolet Tahoe instead led deputies on an afternoon chase through neighboring cities at 100 mph or more. The SUV blew through stop signs and red lights, narrowly missed pedestrians and then began heading the wrong way on northbound Interstate 215, according to the sheriff's statement.


A vehicular chase ended in a head-on collision that closed Interstate 215 in northwest San Bernardino. Calif. NBC Los Angeles
In Muscoy, a deputy opened fire from a helicopter, hitting the SUV several times and wounding the driver, who jumped out of the moving car and ran a few yards before collapsing and dying on the side of the roadway, authorities said.

His name wasn't immediately released.

The SUV, meanwhile, kept moving and crashed head-on into a Dodge Durango. A man and a 13-year-old boy were treated at a hospital and released but a woman remains hospitalized, the statement said.

She is "recovering from her injuries," the statement said.