A Sedgwick County deputy has been released from a hospital after a crash that ended a chase early Monday morning in downtown Wichita.
Sheriff’s Colonel Brian White said a deputy saw suspicious activity at a gas station at Seneca and McCormick, and he called for another deputy. The two deputies began following a small SUV from the area and it went east on McCormick without its headlights on. The deputies tried to stop the vehicle but it sped away. White said the chase lasted for seven and a half minutes when the SUV went north on Topeka, going the wrong way on a one-way street.
Deputies continued the chase, but one of them collided with another SUV that was going west on Douglas at Topeka. The deputy and a 52-year-old woman driving that SUV were taken to a hospital with possible serious injuries. The deputy was later released.
The second deputy ended the chase when the crash occurred, and the people involved in the chase have not been caught.
The Kansas Highway Patrol is investigating the crash.
