Hamtramck street takeover, illegal burnouts end in a crash after a stolen car flees from the police (video)
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Hamtramck, MI - A street takeover in Hamtramck early Monday morning ended in a crash after dozens of cars blocked an intersection for illegal burnouts and fled from police.Just before 1:30 a.m., approximately 30 cars took over the intersection of Lumpkin and Poland. Security camera footage shows several cars strategically blocking the intersection minutes before the burnouts began.Hamtramck Police Department patrol vehicles responded within seconds."So as they arrived, they had their lights and sirens on. They saw cars blocking the roadway, obstructing all traffic, vehicles with people hanging out of the windows, and just being reckless and dangerous," Detective Sgt. Anthony Gonzales said.When officers arrived, the cars began to flee. During the pursuit, the fleeing vehicles drove too wide into oncoming traffic. A suspect driving a stolen Dodge Challenger, several cars ahead of the police, crashed into a civilian's Jeep."As they were pursuing them, the vehicles began going too wide into oncoming traffic. And then a vehicle that was several cars ahead of the police officers that, at the time, they couldn't even observe, crashed into another civilian vehicle," Gonzales said.The driver of the Jeep walked away without any serious injuries. Dash camera footage shows the suspect in the stolen Dodge Challenger running away on foot. The suspect remains at large.Police obtained license plates from multiple vehicles involved in the takeover and identified several cars stolen from other cities. None of the plates currently trace back to Hamtramck residents.
