[Video] The moment a Paris police chase leads to 10 injured cops, four-car pileup
America doesn’t have a monopoly on high-speed police chases. Criminals run from cops all over the world, even in the famed French capital, Paris. However, a French car chase seldom ends with a four-car pileup crash and 10 injured police officers.
A dark BMW sedan slammed into a light post, followed by three police cars in a wild Parisian chase
Paris is more than the City of Love. It’s also a bustling metropolis and home to over two million people. Understandably, then, Paris can be chaotic. And nothing says chaos like a police chase-turned-four-car pileup on busy Parisian streets.
French police initiated the chase after a suspect vehicle refused to stop at a checkpoint. “Three police vehicles then set off in pursuit of the vehicle for several kilometers,” a French law officer said in a statement. The high-speed chase spanned several miles of Paris’s ancient streets and pitted three police cars against the suspect vehicle. That is, before the runaway driver lost control of his BMW.
The shocking series of crashes is visible on CCTV footage. It started when the BMW 5 Series sedan slammed into a traffic light pole during a police chase at the junction of Boulevard du Montparnasse and Avenue du Maine. A moment later, a police-liveried Peugot 5008 crashes into the wounded BMW sedan at a blistering speed.
The CCTV footage shows the two French police officers emerging from the damaged Peugot, emergency lights still flashing. However, even with bright, flashing emergency lights, yet another Peugot 5008 police vehicle spears into the first wrecked police car. Several police officers filed out of that vehicle as well.
Shockingly, that wasn’t the end of the debacle. Although the CCTV footage is at a sped-up pace, another police car crashes into the first two. But not before nearly 30 agonizing seconds tick by. All said and done, three out of four of the cars in the post-chase wreck were police vehicles.
According to AFP, 13 people suffered injuries, 10 of whom were police officers. Fortunately, even with four separate crashes in the mix, all of the injuries were non-life-threatening. Paris police chief Laurent Nunez commended the officers after the hospital discharged all 10. Moreover, Nunez blamed the incident on “poor” visibility on the darkened Parisian streets.
Check out the video of the four-car pileup below!
