Woman suffers serious injuries in rollover after vehicle flees from police

A woman was seriously injured Monday night in a rollover involving a vehicle fleeing from police.

It was at about midnight when Rocky Mountain House RCMP received a report of a possible impaired driver in a small sedan chasing another vehicle on the Sunchild First Nation. The complainant also indicated that the vehicle may have had a suspect wanted on outstanding warrants for violent offences as a passenger in the pursuing vehicle.

Mounties immediately patrolled the area and located a car matching the description and attempted to stop the suspect vehicle on the Sunchild First Nation. Instead of stopping, the vehicle fled from the RCMP narrowly missing one of the officers trying to stop it. Police attempted to catch up to the fleeing vehicle and lost sight of it after it turned into the O’Chiese First Nation.

Police ceased the pursuit and were patrolling the area south of where it was last seen when a passerby stated they had seen the suspect vehicle in the ditch north of their location. Evidently, the driver of the suspect vehicle had lost control, entered the ditch and rolled within minutes of the police originally losing sight of it.