ATLANTA — Police say a police chase ended Friday morning with a car slamming into a light pole in west Midtown.The driver ran from the scene, police said.
The Georgia Department of Public Safety said an officer tried to stop a car on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive after the car nearly hit a Capitol police officer, according to police.
When the officer tried to pull the car over, the driver sped off and led the officer on a chase, police said. The driver eventually crashed the car on Whitehall Street at Northside Dr., then ran from the scene.
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Photos from the scene show the mangled car and debris littering the road. The crash took out two power poles and a traffic light, according to Atlanta Fire Rescue.
Georgia State Patrol is still investigating. It is unclear if the driver was hurt in the crash.
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