Pennsylvania Teen Arrested After 120 MPH Chase Ends With Stolen Car Lodged in Cafe’s Front Door
Another day, another teen driver taking police on a high-speed chase. This time the chase ended with a stolen car lodged in the front door of a cafe in Pennsylvania.
According to court documents, Pennsylvania State Police troopers attempted to stop a Hyundai Elantra for an expired registration around 3:20 a.m. on Friday. However, when the officers activated their lights and sirens, according to PennLive, the driver refused to pull over and sped away.
The Elantra driver ended up taking the troopers on a seven-mile chase down Route 94. At one point during the pursuit, the Hyundai driver reached speeds of over 120 miles per hour.
The chase ended when the Elantra driver went through the center of a roundabout in Reading Township. That caused the car to hit a roadway sign and crash through the front door of the Three Arrows Coffee Company and New Horizon Cafe. Luckily, the cafe was unoccupied at the time. An ambulance took the driver to WellSpan York Hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.
When the owner of the Hyundai was contacted by the Conewago Township Police Department, they reported that someone had stolen it. The police charged the teen with fleeing or attempting to elude the officer, receiving stolen property, and several summary offenses including reckless driving, driving at an unsafe speed, driving on roadways laned for traffic, and operating a vehicle with an expired registration.
Drivers crashing into buildings and homes is becoming a common event
The crash in Hampton, Pennsylvania that damaged a cafe is at least the fourth significant incident to occur over the past few days involving cars causing property damage.
On Saturday, a homeowner in Rochester, New York, says he fell “out of his chair” when a car crashed through his neighbor’s fence and then into his house. That accident left a big hole in the home’s basement.
In San Marcos, Texas, a a 14-year-old girl crashed a car straight through the wall of an apartment building, impacting two residences. The damage caused by the crash made the building uninhabitable, forcing residents to move while workers made repairs.
Meanwhile, in Everett, Massachusetts, a driver was thrown from a car after hitting multiple homes in a crash on a residential street. During the crash, the driver took out one of the home’s power meters, which, in turn, took out power in parts of the neighborhood and left at least 10 people displaced.
Police keep catching teen drivers going over 100 mph
The teen driver in Pennsylvania is just the latest young driver that police have busted for speeding over 100 mph. Recently, police impounded a teen driver from Nebraska‘s new Audi S5 just four days after he got it when they caught him driving it at 100 mph.
Incidents such as this are why one company has created a device parents can install on their car that makes it impossible for teen drivers to speed.