Two Detroit men killed when their car crashed were among at least eight people who died in New Year's holiday weekend traffic accidents in Michigan, police said. Mark A Horton, 21, and passenger Phillip A. Blurbridge, 19, were killed when their car crashed in their hometown at 1:54 a.m. They were not wearing seat belts. While these deaths were not reported in news media as police pursuit deaths, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data shows police reported two people dying in a police pursuit at 1:54 a.m. on January 1, 2000, on Davison Freeway. It was the only double fatality crash in Michigan that night.

A motorcycle was allegedly being driven erratically when a deputy began to pursue. The motorcycle crashed, killing the driver, Mark Ortiz.

Officer Charles Rowe began pursuing Billie Jones, 30, of Knightdale and Terry Rouse, 29, after spotting them in a neighborhood where break-ins had occurred, police said. Police did not report whether Jones and Rouse were involved in any illegal activity. While being chased, they crashed into a house, killing both.

Police said they clocked a 1990s model Mitsubishi Galant at 105 mph eastbound on I-16 about 1:20 a.m. Officers pursued the car and radioed for backup. The Mitsubishi wrecked on the Chatham Parkway exit ramp. The driver, Jimmy Todd Smith, and a passenger, Carl Gallishaw, were killed.

Police were chasing a white Ford Expedition about 2:30 a.m. when it struck a 1999 Oldsmobile Aurora, killing Doris Murphy, 42, and Carolyn Oakley, 41. Dwight Lamont Williams, 21, was arrested on warrants charging him with vehicular manslaughter.

Samuel Davey was killed when he lost control of his car in a high-speed police chase on Interstate 75. A passenger in the car, a 14-year-old runaway from Ohio, was hospitalized in stable condition. Davey had reportedly driven off from a Valdosta, Ga., service station without paying for $9 of gas.

Demetric McClendon, 25, and his passenger Tommy Wilson, 29, were fleeing police when they were killed when their car struck two other vehicles. The men were not being chased by police, police said. Officers were looking for one of them on an attempted-murder warrant, had followed his car but did not chase them.

Thomas Lynn Medders was being chased by a deputy when his vehicle left the road and hit a tree, killing him.

Police said Willie Lee Glover, 79, was shot and killed, and Glover's caregiver, Gretta Faye Samilton, 49, was wounded in a shooting at a home in Midwest City. Police responding to reports of shots fired saw a man run from the residence to a car and leave. Police nearby spotted the car and chased it north on Midwest Boulevard, where the driver lost control and flipped several times. Beabout said Johnson was dead at the scene.

Chinle police said they were alerted to a crash on Navajo Route 7. The drivers of two separate vehicles were dead at the scene—Betty Lou Lee and an unidentified person. A passenger in Lee's vehicle was injured. According to police, alcoholic beverages were found at the scene. [NOTE: This crash was not reported as a police chase, but it's the only double fatal crash reported in the area that day, and it matches the details from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data.]

Kortique Walter reportedly jumped from a car during a police chase and ran onto I-80, where he was subsequently struck by a motorist in the eastbound lanes. Police had been pursuing an allegedly stolen Pontiac Grand Prix. The Pontiac was eventually crashed into a telephone by a 14-year-old driver, who police said slid into the driver's seat after Walter jumped out.

Jeremiah Cernat, 12, and his passenger, Timothy Callicoat, 14, were fleeing police in a stolen car when they crashed. Callicoat was killed in the accident.

When a Taunton police officer tried to pull a vehicle over for running a red light at 4 a.m., the driver fled, and the officer pursued for five miles. The car became airborne and hit a treek, killing two passengers, Justin DeMello, 19, and Eric Brockway, 19. The driver of the car, Christopher Federici, 17, was charged with two counts of felony motor vehicle homicide

Jojola was killed in the crash that occurred when another vehicle targeted in a high-speed police chase, driven by Samuel Gonzales, ran a red light and into the teen's truck at San Mateo Boulevard Northeast and the I-25 overpass, police said.

Off-duty Officer Ryan Shiver was driving home from a Super Bowl party when his car slid off the road, killing brothers John W. Brobson Jr., 27, and Steve D. Brobson, 25, who were passengers in his car. Shiver's blood-alcohol level was well over the legal limit at the time of the crash.

When Edward Richardson was killed in a car accident, he might have been fleeing the scene of his estranged wife's stabbing. While this media account doesn't explicitly say that deputies were involved, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration lists this as a police-chase involved death.

Allan Dequito shot and wounded a police officer responding to a dropped 911 call, killed his wife, Andrea, and then himself. The couple's 2-year-old daughter, who was in the house, was not injured. A Kevlar vest saved the life of the 33-year-old police officer,

According to police, two men carjacked and robbed a couple at about 1:50 a.m. in the 300 block of Madrid. Police saw a 2000 Camaro matching the description of the stolen car and said tried to stop it, but a chase began. The Camaro then struck a vehicle parked in a driveway off Farm Road 78 in Marion. Misty Milligan, a passenger in the parked car, was killed. A passenger in the Camaro, also died at the scene. The driver of the Camaro, a 23-year-old man, was taken by air ambulance to University Hospital.

Trinity Allen Jewell was killed at 9:34 p.m. when his car went off the road and hit an embankment during a police pursuit.[NOTE: This crash was not reported as a police chase, but the crash matches the details from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data indicating a police pursuit-related death.]

Charles Kaiser left a party mad because his daughter didn't have him walk down the aisle with her at her wedding. Guests called police, who chased the drunken man until he crashed and was killed.

Dieugrand Dorcely, 45, was killed when a police car swerved into his 1994 Dodge Spirit, causing it to flip over. But Douglas Armstrong of Irvington, the driver of a second car struck by the police vehicle, said he saw no car being directly pursued when the police cruiser swerved out of control and struck Dorcely's vehicle before hitting his car.

Sandra L. Roberts died after being dragged 25 yards in an allegedly stolen car during a police chase. A Crown Victoria that was reported stolen Sunday night was spotted Monday afternoon by a group of men who'd been looking for it. The men flagged down a police car, which began chasing the Crown Victoria. The driver took off along 9th Street while Roberts, the passenger, was halfway out of the vehicle. Police said they didn't know whether she was trying to get into the car or out of it. The car struck a parked Cadillac and crashed into a utility pole, where Roberts fell.

After a seven-minute high-speed chase with four different police jurisdictions, a juvenile suspect recklessly driving a stolen Chevrolet pickup crashed into Green's vehicle, killing him. The suspect was to face murder charges as an adult.

Police attempted to pull over a van in northeast Detroit for not having license plates. According to police, they called off the chase at Hayes and Seven Mile, but the van sped north on Hayes until it struck a car at Lappin. The other car burst into flames. Sean Dabney and Patrick Heard, who were inside the burning car, were killed.

Mario Cazarin was fleeing a traffic stop with Park Ranger Paul McGann pursuing him about 9 p.m. when Cazarin's Ford Taurus flipped.

Andrew Wright was being chased by state troopers when he crashed his pickup truck into a car driven by Josh Brockington. Brockington was killed. Brockington's passenger, Daniel Sasich, suffered a severe brainstem injury in the crash, and could not speak, eat or move. In 2010, Sasich had pneumonia and his family decided to let him go. Wright was sentenced to 22-25 years for motor vehicle homicide. He was paroled in April 2012.

Douglas Copeland, 19, a drunken driver who was fleeing police at 100 mph when he crashed his car into another vehicle, killing the driver, Charles Melton, was sentenced to eight years in prison.

According to police, Kristine Schneider was driving a 1991 Pontiac Grand Am north on Highway 11 at around 9 p.m. when she tried to turn left onto Husker Highway and collided with a patrol car driven by deputy Lynn Gardient. Schneider died at a hospital. Gardient was treated and released.

Dwayne Richardson fled a police stop, reaching speeds of up to 110 miles per hour when he crashed into a house and killed one of his passengers, Andrew Haggarty.

Officers Dan Anders and John T. Kurtz Jr. reportedly backed off from chasing Jason Manton before he collided head-on with another car, killing Karen O'Neal and injuring her husband. Manton, who was also killed in the crash, tried to flee police and entered the southbound lanes of Interstate 77 from Brecksville Rd. going in the wrong direction.

An unidentified man was killed and two others seriously injured when their car being chased by an officer crashed into a telephone pole. The reason the men were fleeing from the officer, who had stopped them moments earlier for speeding, was not reported.

A Burnett County sheriff's deputy David Keith, 42, killed his wife, Janine Keith when the car he was driving left the road and hit a tree near their home. Keith, who had a blood-alcohol level of 0.16, was first charged with felony homicide by drunken driving. But in a plea agreement, Keith pleaded no contest to a reduced charge of causing injury by drunken driving, a misdemeanor. He also pleaded no contest to obstructing an officer. At the time of the crash, Keith told police he saw deer by the road, then hit a patch of ice. But an investigation showed the road was dry with no ice or snow.

Kim Coates was sentenced to 12 years in prison after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter, fleeing police, drunken driving and three other charges for the wreck that killed Alahzar..

The Hobbs and their infant were killed by Johnny Caballero who was fleeing police who were attempting to stop him for driving while drunk.

According to police, Rosemarie Forker crashed a stolen 1999 Chevrolet Silverado into a 1999 Camaro driven by Bradley Downing III. Downing died. Forker and passenger Jeffrey Kent Holland, 19, were injured. Police said officer Daniel Lovelace spotted the Silverado around 1 a.m. at the intersection of McQueen and Chandler and turned around to follow the truck. Police said the officer didn't have his lights and sirens on and followed about a quarter mile behind the truck, radioing for another unit to put out stop sticks. The truck ran a red light and hit the Camaro about two miles into the pursuit, before the other officer arrived.

17-year-old Jeffrey Scott Howe was driving at about 2:15 a.m. when police gave chase. Police alleged the car was stolen in Muskegon and used in a Newaygo County convenience store burglary. Passenger Jeremy Tjapkes died after the car crashed into a tree. According to police, they found cigarette cartons, instant lottery tickets and beer in the car. Howe was sentenced to 6-15 years in prison after he pleaded no contest to fleeing police causing a death.

An allegedly stolen truck carrying 22 undocumented immigrants crashed on Highway 98 near the Mexican border, killing three people and injuring 18.

An allegedly stolen truck carrying 22 undocumented immigrants crashed on Highway 98 near the Mexican border, killing three people and injuring 18.

An elderly deaf couple driving home from church died when their van collided with a police cruiser rushing to check on another officer feared to be in trouble.

There is almost no information online about this death except for an old yahoo group that copies an AP report. It says that Shawn was struck by a Jeep Cherokee from the Wind River Police Department around 7 p.m. Thursday on a dark section of Seventeen Mile Road near Arapaho. The bicycle did not have reflectors or lights, according to the Wyoming Highway Patrol.

Officer Jamie Smith pursued John Wortham for about 1.7 miles because Wortham was speeding in the wrong lane of traffic. Wortham lost control of his vehicle, crossed the centerline, and collided with a vehicle driven by Vonnie Ogburn. Wortham and Ogburn were both killed.

While fleeing police, Sherrod Carrington's car struck a utility pole on the south side of West College Avenue, hit the curb at Cookes House Lane, flew through the air and struck brick home, killing him.

About 9 p.m., a North Carolina trooper pursued Calvert Lee Batt Jr., 30, who fled after a speeding stop. Batt crashed, killing himself and his passenger, Diane Nelms, 29.

Robert Damon Cash told police he stopped at three bars before the crash. His pickup truck was speeding at an estimated 70 mph on 11th Street SE when it went through a red right at Cherry Avenue and smashed into a Chrysler New Yorker killing Teri Backie, Jamie Marapao, and Jasmine R. Backie.

Eighth-grader Michael Lovell was killed when he struck a tree about 1:15 a.m. as he was being chased by police.

Eric Poland was killed when he drove through the wall of a Boeing Aircraft building on East Spring Street following a short police pursuit that began at about 4:30 a.m. when an officer saw Poland commit a traffic violation.

Brant Wright, 33, the driver of a vehicle involved in one-car crash that killed Meredith Fuller Robinson, was charged with crimes related to the crash, which reportedly happened during a pursuit by Franklin police about 12:30 a.m. Robinson was one of three passengers in the car.

Kacy Lee Clark died as a result of injuries from an accident that occurred as Coffee County deputy Mark Anderson pursued her car.

After a chase, Thomas Wylie jumped out of a van and tried to run across Interstate 64 when he was hit by a Pontiac Grand Am and killed.

Cayce Public Safety Sgt. Douglas Curry ran a red light as he sped toward a bank burglary alarm, crashing into Jessie Claytor and killing him. He was cited with a misdemeanor for failing to use due care.

Two Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute students were injured in a 1:55 a.m. crash. Jessie Fortier, 19, died of her injuries, and Hillary Lindsay, 20, recovered. Fortier and Lindsay were among four passengers in a car driven by Paul F. Rickert, when it was struck broadside by a police cruiser driven by Officer William Bowles, who reportedly was on his way to assist fellow officers at a fight.

Rockefeller Smith was killed when his car was hit head-on by an allegedly stolen pickup being chased by police.

Anthony V. Williams, 20, and Sharon M. Putman, died in a four-car accident that occurred near Gray Court. Williams and Putman were riding in separate vehicles. A Laurens city police officer attempted to stop the Mitsubishi Williams was driving after receiving a report that a car matching its description was stolen. When Williams attempted to pass a vehicle on a hill, he collided head-on with Putman's vehicle.

A drunken-driving suspect, Poyer, was fleeing from police and was killed when he lost control of his pickup truck and was thrown from the vehicle.

An officer was driving home at about 2:30 a.m. when he saw a Chevrolet Lumina and suspected the driver was intoxicated. The officer pulled over the car , but as he was getting out of his patrol car, the Lumina sped away, police said. There were three Waco residents inside the car: Emmanuel Thomas, 16; Nikki Gillen, 12; and Stacy Gillen, 11. Nikki Gillen was believed to have been driving. The chase reached speeds of 110 miles per hour. When the Lumina was about a half-mile ahead of the pursuing officers, the driver lost control and struck a tree killing sisters Nikki Gillen and Stacy Gillen.

The maroon Dodge Intrepid stolen from the parking lot of a Holiday Inn, chased by police at high speed, flipped and smashed into a tree. Apparently driver Jackie Eugene Guyton and passenger Mario Boyer were both killed by the impact.

Traveling somewhere between 88 to 97 mph in a 45 mph zone at 3:15 a.m., without lights or siren, responding to a non-emergency situation, a local officer struck and killed pedestrian Ivey. The officer was charged and convicted of vehicular homicide, but after repeated appeals the charge was reduced to reckless driving, and the officer served a total of 40 days.

John Peter Serineo and David Sheehan died after the allegedly stolen car they were in crashed while fleeing police.

Gregory Venay, 22, fleeing from a Duquesne police officer crashed into a car yesterday, killing his passenger, Robert Black, and critically injuring himself.

A motorist pursued by a Jefferson County sheriff's deputy early Monday smashed into a motorcycle, killing a young Pueblo couple two blocks from their motel.The driver reached speeds of more than 100 mph when he hit the motorcycle at West Colfax Avenue east of Wadsworth Boulevard, Lakewood police said.Daniel Fields Jr., 24, and Amanda Jo Phelps, 21, were dead at the scene. They'd come to Denver for the Blues and Bones Festival. The driver got 26 years, and the deputy and two supervisors were disciplined. Police refused to say how they were disciplined.

Goca was one of two undercover local detectives in a one-car crash at 2:30 a.m. Goca was fatally injured. The driver, his colleague, was intoxicated and charged with two misdemeanor counts of DWI, criminally negligent homicide, and vehicular manslaughter.

Drew Diederich was killed after he ran from police, jumped an 8-foot fence and stood in the path of a freight train until it ran him over.

Bernard Cornelius Simmons was killed when his car collided with a squad car driven by officer Jeff Tyler, who police said was responding to a robbery alarm at a video store shortly before 9 p.m. Tyler was treated and released. Witnesses reportedly gave conflicting statements about whether the squad car's lights and siren were activated. Police said that Simmons was at fault in the crash.

Truck driver Lavache was killed in an early-morning crash with a speeding police car in Bensonhurst. The police had been speeding to a shots fired call. One of the officers was also killed, and the other seriously wounded.

Andover Township Police Sgt. Phillip Coleman saw Dustin DeStefano driving recklessly on Route 206, police said. The motorcycle was speeding and improperly passing traffic by crossing over a double-yellow line. With his cruiser lights flashing, Coleman chased the motorcycle, trying to pull it over, but DeStefano sped away and turned left onto Route 603. At that point, Coleman lost sight of DeStefano and reportedly halted the pursuit in accordance with state guidelines for backing off high-speed chases. DeStefano crashed and died a short time later.

Officer Brian McClung saw Joshua Fralin allegedly speeding, pulled in behind him at a stoplight, and Fralin sped away before crashing and killing Alfred Perdue.

A driver speeding away from police crashed into another vehicle in Lakewood, killing 28-year-old Isaac Okoroafor of Denver, a Nigerian immigrant who was holding down two jobs and studying accounting at Metropolitan State College of Denver. Okoroafor was killed when a speeding 1997 Toyota Corolla failed to stop at a stop sign at West Colfax Avenue and Depew Street and broadsided his car, killing him.

Patricia Marie Smith stole a conversion van and fled police, crashing into John M. Foley, and killing him. Smith was drunk.

A high-speed police chase ended when the car being chased slammed into an embankment killing all three men inside. The men were wanted in connection to a reported burglary attempt earlier.

A high-speed police chase ended when the car being chased slammed into an embankment killing all three men inside. The men were wanted in connection to a reported burglary attempt earlier.

David L. Johnson was killed by being ejected from his car while being pursued by a Kentucky Vehicle Enforcement officer for an apparent speeding violation.

Jesse Chuma, 18, allegedly was drunk and fleeing police with his headlights off when he crashed into a utility pole, killing a 17-year-old passenger Robert Baldini Jr.

Trooper Chris J. Spinner stopped a 2000 Mitsubishi Galant with Florida tags for a seat-belt violation, police said. The unidentified driver fled and then lost control of his car and crashed into a minivan, killing William O. Thomas.

Larry Joseph Barnett, who crashed his car during a police chase, killing a passenger in the vehicle, was sentenced to six years and nine months in prison.

Canton was fleeing police when he slammed into a minivan and killed two young brothers, then was killed in a gunfight between police and a suspected accomplice. The wreck flipped the minivan and pushed it out of an intersection, killing Nicholas Ellesin, 5, and his 3-year-old brother, Alexander.

Sherrard and his friend Chaunsler Mitchell, 27, left Christy's Bar on Lake Waubesa on their motorcycles and headed toward another bar in Oregon. Angela Gutho, 22, rode with Sherrard, and Angela Vechinski, 25, rode with Mitchell. A sheriff's deputy, running his lights and siren on his way to a single-car accident, came upon the two motorcyclists, who refused to pull over and let him by. Mitchell sped away and the deputy pursued Sherrard's motorcycle at speeds topping 110 miles an hour. Once into Oregon, Sherrard lost control of his motorcycle and crashed at Jefferson Street. Sherrard was injured and Gutho was killed.

Dalia Santillana was killed when her vehicle was struck by a car driven by a man fleeing police. During a wrongful death trial, evidence was presented that the officers had rammed the fleeing vehicle (a violation of CPD policy) causing the driver to lose control and cross the centerline. A Cook County jury rejected the city of Chicago's position that officers were not engaged in the pursuit at the time of the fatal collision. In December 2003, a Cook County Circuit Court jury awarded Elizabeth Santillana $2 million in the case.

David Charles Wiley and Leonard Myers were killed in two separate vehicles hit by an unrelated pickup truck fleeing police.

As a local officer sped to the scene of a domestic dispute in a department Crown Victoria at 90 mph, he lost control and collided with Mervil's vehicle. She died at the scene. The officer involved was not charged, but "a Florida Highway Patrol traffic homicide investigator found that Schmidt broke a law governing officers' use of emergency vehicles," according to the Sun-Sentinal.

Michael Lackey, 40, allegedly was fleeing from police in a stolen van when he rammed a car, killing the car's driver, Gregory Johnson, 22, and critically injuring a passenger. A jury yesterday convicted the car thief, Michael Graham, aka Michael Lackey, 41, of homicide by vehicle, third-degree murder, aggravated assault and related offenses.

A 21-year-old suspect in a high-speed chase with police ran a red light at about 90 MPH and violently collided with a vehicle carrying James Hamrick and his cousin Danny Thomas McCorey. The suspect, wanted for a traffic violation, was charged with two counts of second degree murder.

A police chase that began in Wisconsin ended in eastern Minnesota with the death of a 35-year-old Milwaukee man. The crash occurred at 5:30 a.m. Monday in Kanabec County.A deputy in Wisconsin's Burnett County began chasing what he suspected was a stolen vehicle. The chase resumed in Minnesota's Pine County, where a deputy lost sight of the vehicle, later finding it overturned in a field.

Nicko Bazemore was accused of driving a stolen van that got into a three-vehicle crash during a police chase, killing a 23-year-old Melanie R. Wilson and injuring several others.

Passengers Darrell Trust and Clevron Adams were killed when a late-model Buick Regal that Woodson Terrace police had chased for two miles hit Kinloch Police Officer Harrold Barnett's police car head-on at the crest of a hill. According to police, a Woodson Terrace officer began chasing the Buick, which he believed was carrying auto thieves. Barnett was responding as backup to the pursuit. Barnett suffered a broken pelvis, hip and kneecap in the crash. The Buick's driver, Victor Williams, 21, was charged with two counts of vehicular homicide and one count of assault on a police officer.

David Terry Roehr, 23, led police on a high-speed chase before dying in a crash was driving on a suspended license and had a history of traffic and other violations. He died in a four-vehicle collision on State Route 18 east of Maple Valley that injured off-duty Seattle police Sgt. Gary Nelson.

Hernan J. Brito-Alvarado, 17, and his cousin Javier Cedillo-Brito, 25, died after a Cambridge, Minn., man drove through a stop sign in northeast Minneapolis on Aug. 10, police said. An officer had lost sight of Jeffrey J. Hookham's car and had turned off lights and siren before the crash with Cedillo-Brito's car. Hookham was charged with second-degree murder.

Angel Rosario and Carl Jordan were killed when they lost control of a stolen Buick Park Avenue and crashed into a newspaper truck at University Avenue and Raymond Boulevard. Rosario was driving the car, police said. Police pursued the men, but ended the chase. Rosario continued speeding for several blocks, crashing into driver's side of the newspaper truck.

Off-duty deputy Mark Pierce struck a vehicle driven by Benjamin Leonard at the unmarked intersection of 79th Street South and 167th Street West. Leonard was killed and his 4-year-old son was seriously injured in the crash. Pierce was also injured. The Kansas Attorney General's Office cleared Pierce of wrongdoing in the crash, but Leonard's brother questioned the objectivity of the initial investigation because the Sheriff's Office was investigating one of its own. Leonard's brother was also reportedly suspicious about several bottles of beer found near the accident scene.

Darrell Counts was killed when his Oldsmobile was struck by another Oldsmobile being chased by police through downtown Joplin. An officer tried to stop Diane Vaughn, 18, and Michael Watson, 23, for driving the wrong way down a one-way street. The pair fled because they were wanted on outstanding misdemeanor warrants. Vaughn was reportedly fleeing at speeds of less than 25 mph when Watson said: "If you're not going to stop ... punch it." Vaughn then allegedly drove through a red light and two stop signs, accelerating to 55 mph before her car hit Counts' car. Counts died at the scene. A judge ruled that Watson's words were enough to charge him with manslaughter in Counts' death.

An off-duty police killed a motorcyclist in an accident. Colorado Springs Police Department initially refused to release information, but then apparently released it, but the Colorado Springs Gazette, which made a big deal out of the refusal to provide the public documents, forgot to follow up.

Mustang police chased a car after it was seen driving recklessly. The car entered Yukon at speeds of more than 90 mph. Yukon police joined the chase. Rikki Ann West, 16, was driving the car. Sarah Hatfield, 15, was the passenger. Both were killed when the car crashed.

A motorcycle that had been reported stolen was speeding west on Farrington Highway. Police were pursuing without blue lights activated. The motorcycle slammed into a Nissan Sentra and made a left turn from Ma'ili Beach near Kaukama Road. The impact flipped the vehicle over. The motorcyclist, George K. Uahinui, 28, and the driver of the Sentra, Rayson Labaya, 22, were killed.

Officer Wendy Feilen tried to pull over a BMW convertible at about 2:45 a.m. after the driver, Lonnie Schwandt, ran a stop sign at 60th and Blondo, police said. Schwandt allegedly sped away, and Feilen gave chase. According to police, the BMW reached speeds of 100 mph through the hilly Benson neighborhood, and Feilen lost sight of it. Less than a minute after the pursuit began, Schwandt apparently ran another stop sign, hitting a pickup truck. The BMW burst into flames with Schwandt pinned inside. Schwandt died at a hospital. The pickup's driver suffered a broken leg.

Oklahoma City police officer Jeff Rominger, 42, and Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Matthew Evans, 24, died after Patrick Kiplinger, driving eastbound, led Rominger into the westbound lanes of Interstate 40. Kiplinger, 41, struck a westbound tractor trailer and then collided with Evans' patrol cruiser. Kiplinger's car struck the trailer again and rebounded into a concrete barrier. Kiplinger's 15-year-old nephew, Martin Hughes, also died in the crash.

Richard W. Edwards died when his car was broadsided by a suspected carjacker who was fleeing East Baton Rouge Parish deputies.

An officer chasing James Minor called off the pursuit when Minor's motorcycle began to run stop signs on Hanover Avenue Northwest at speeds of 60 mph. Minor died after his motorcycle hit a car.

Limousine driver Dwight Jones was killed during a brief police chase that began when he ran a stop sign.

An unmarked police car struck Rodriguez in the streets of Washington Heights, leaving him in a coma for two weeks before his death. Witness accounts did not square up with the police narrative, and people in the neighborhood were unhappy with police, among other things, apparently coming to dig up dirt about their victim.

Teens Alfred Kearns and Emily Robins fled from police in a Nissan Altima, reported stolen by Robins's father, who wished to teach his errant daughter a lesson. After a seven-minute chase at 90 MPH at 3 a.m. the teens' car struck and almost halved a car driven by Jordanian immigrant Richard Haddad. The two were killed instantly; Haddad was taken off life support after eight days.

Hall's marked police car hit Robert "Bobby" Heyward, 47, after Heyward crossed into the path of the police car, police said. The officer was driving west on the slick road, headed to a back-up call in the area. His siren and emergency lights were not activated, police said.

Annette Dickerson's daughter Sharonda Arnold was in the stolen car that crashed into and killed Dickerson. Yuhanna Clinkscale and Arnold were speeding south on Lehigh Drive, fleeing from police.

Two people in a car heading east on Bogan Walk were killed when their vehicle collided with a 1979 Monte Carlo fleeing police.

Police said an officer tried to stop an allegedly stolen car on the Williamstown/Marietta Bridge. The teenaged driver reportedly refused to stop, prompting a chase that was joined by other officers. The car went out of control and struck an embankment on W.Va. 14. 16-year-old Billie Reynolds, a passenger in the car, died the next day from head injuries suffered in the crash. Two other teens inside the car were taken to area hospitals.

After drinking at two locations, Clyde Arakawa, an off-duty Honolulu police officer, collided with Hale'iwa resident Dana Ambrose, 19. Ambrose was killed. Arakawa was convicted of manslaughter.

Patricia Baker, 20, a Beggs woman wanted on two drug warrants, and her 14-year-old brother, Justin White, were killed in a traffic accident while trying to elude Sapulpa police, police said. The car Baker was driving ran a stop sign and hit the trailer of a tractor-trailer rig, killing them.

Shayne Mouton was killed after being thrown from a motorcycle following a high-speed police chase.

Three teenagers in a stolen 1988 Camry blew through a stop sign while being chased by police and crashed into a Kia Sephia full of children. Wright was killed, another 6-year-old was seriously injured. Despite police assertions that officers had observed the department's own no-chase policies, witnesses saw three to five patrol cars in hot pursuit of the stolen car.

A crash occurred after a night Calvert Cayatineto spent drinking and partying with two other friends, according to court testimony. When the Plymouth led police on a high-speed chase in and around Crownpoint and Littlewater on the Navajo Reservation, Cayatineto testified, he was a passenger and a friend was driving the car. During the chase, the Plymouth ran several stop signs, traveled with its lights on and off, swerved to avoid police blockades and sped at more than 90 mph, hitting Sophie Billie Martin's vehicle at approximately 109 mph and killing her.

State police spotted three motorcyclists speeding. The motorcyclists led police through Wrightstown, where one of the cyclists collided with a car turning out of a McDonald's, police said. The motorcyclist, who was wearing a helmet, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Motorcyclist Acaf Jinesta was killed in a collision on Route 46 after evading police in a high-speed chase, police said.

Evelyn Sanchez, 39, and Jose Miguel Cales, 44, were killed when they were thrown from their car after a collision with what police said was a stolen car, which police had been chasing. A suspect, Charles Drumm, 19, turned himself in to police later in the day.

Vigil, a retired corrections officer serving as a security guard at Las Campanas, was killed when his car was struck by a Jeep at the intersection of East Alameda Street and East Palace Avenue. The Jeep's driver, Leroy Roybal, was trying to outrun two officers, one of whom saw him speeding along Sandoval Street.

Russell Hahnel ran a stop sign, triggering an extended police chase across three counties. It ended at 2 a.m. when a state trooper in pursuit slammed into Hahnel's car, killing both him and his passenger, Sandy Shaw Walker.

Graciela "Gracie" Godinez was killed when her minivan was struck by an intoxicated, one-way driver. Police initially said that officers arrived after the crash, but then changed the account, saying two officers tracked Felipe Serrano for two miles, flashing emergency lights and pointing spotlights into his pickup to alert him.

A driver who fled a traffic checkpoint crashed and died.

Dallas Alan McElroy was fleeing police when he ran into and killed Jennifer Brooke Lacross.

Prophet Phaysouphanh was killed in a car crash while fleeing police.

Jonathan Patrick Hutton pleaded guilty to several felonies including homicide by vehicle and aggravated assault while driving drunk, and involuntary manslaughter and fleeing from police, misdemeanors. He crashed while fleeing and killed his friend 21-year-old Kevin A. Rice.

Jackson was fleeing from police after he tripped a burglar alarm at a central Little Rock home. He was killed when the stolen car he was driving slammed head-on into a concrete wall, police said.

Darwin was in a cleaning-company van at about 7 a.m. when it was struck by a police cruiser going 30 MPH over the speed limit. The van flipped, landing on its top, and Darwin was killed. The officer resigned from the force and was not charged.

Drunk man with 5 kids in the backseat rolled over in a car chase. Wife and daughter killed. No shots fired.

Two Bethany police cruisers had been following Patterson at speeds of more than 100 mph along Interstate 44 when Patterson attempted to exit onto N.W. 10th Avenue. Patterson's car flipped several times, and he was thrown from the vehicle and killed.

Driver Kenny Dean Richardson and passenger Johnny Keith Grider Jr. were reportedly killed when their Toyota veered into the wrong lane on a curve and collided with a Ford pickup driven by David W. Weaver during an apparent police chase.

James Allen, 34, a convicted car thief, was high on cocaine and fleeing cops when the crash occurred at 29th and Diamond streets, killing Michael Thomas.

Paterson police officer Janet Jones was chasing John Tassillo, 27, when Tassillo's car slammed into a car driven by 57-year-old Ernest Stokes, killing him. Tassillo was charged with vehicular homicide.

Wylld Fero was one of three men killed when their pickup was struck in downtown Prescott by a man fleeing Prescott Valley police. The fatal chase began in Prescott Valley when a police officer tried to arrest a man outside a convenience store after finding he was driving a stolen sports utility vehicle. The driver, Jesus Genaro Peralta, drove off, striking and slightly injuring the officer, police said. The officer managed to shoot Peralta, who headed toward Prescott. Several officers were chasing the SUV when it crashed into the truck. Fero, Danny Kamholz, 18, and Evan Spencer, 18, were killed.

Danny Kamholz was one of three men killed when their pickup was struck in downtown Prescott by a man fleeing Prescott Valley police. The fatal chase began in Prescott Valley when a police officer tried to arrest a man outside a convenience store after finding he was driving a stolen sports utility vehicle. The driver, Jesus Genaro Peralta, drove off, striking and slightly injuring the officer, police said. The officer managed to shoot Peralta, who headed toward Prescott. Several officers were chasing the SUV when it crashed into the truck. Kamholz, 18, Wylld Fero, 25, and Evan Spencer, 18, were killed.

County officers observed Colby Diller travelling the wrong way on Hwy 26 at 2:30 in the morning, and gave chase the wrong way at up to 80 MPH for a matter of miles. A deputy laying down a spike strip to stop Diller was unable to wave off Nancy Lee Logan-Morgan, travelling legally and at full speed, and those two vehicles collided head on, killing both drivers.

State trooper Jeff Benson stopped to help the De Avila family after their car slid off I-80 one mile east of the West Branch exit. According to police, Benson, Geonia De Avila and her daughter, Lisa, 7, were walking on the right side of his patrol car when a semitrailer hit Benson's cruiser, pushing it and the three pedestrians into the ditch. The trailer came to rest on top of Benson's patrol car, pinning all three people under the car. Both mother and daughter were killed. Benson was hospitalized in serious condition. The father had been pushed out of the way of the accident and sustained minor injuries, police said.

James Edward Wilkins III, 20, was sentenced by Circuit Court Judge John E. Wetsel Jr. to serve four years on supervised probation for a police chase that resulted in the death of a passenger in the car, Theon Mandrill Strother.

Patrolman Jack Cochran was headed for Glenridge Avenue in response to a burglary call. Memmer was on his way home from work. Memmer turned the Honda he was driving into the driveway of his Southern Boulevard apartment just as Cochran was attempting to pass from behind on his left side. The cruiser struck the car broadside, killing Memmer.

Driver David Phillip Nuce and passenger Leslie Vaughn Castro were killed when their pickup truck crashed after officer Brandon Sees chased them almost 25 miles from Manteca into Stanislaus County.

Edward Fields died when he crashed a stolen car into a bridge abutment while leading police on a high-speed chase.

Dana Lee, Robin McCoy and Steven Bledsoe were passengers in a car involved in a high-speed chase. The driver, Corey Tate, lost control and crashed. All 3 passengers were killed; Tate survived.

On April 4, Willie M. Anderson went into cardiac arrest and died from injuries sustained nearly two months earlier, when a vehicle fleeing police crashed into her car. At about 8:30 p.m. on February 8, officers began to chase an allegedly stolen Chevrolet Malibu being driven at high speed. According to police, the officers backed off the chase before the Malibu collided with Anderson's oncoming car. The other driver, Derek Petty, 19, was charged with second-degree murder, three counts of second-degree assault and one count of first-degree tampering.

Police said they responded to a report of a larceny in progress at a home construction site and stopped two trucks that appeared to be loaded with construction material. Two men were arrested without incident, but John Steven Moffitt and a passenger reportedly sped away in a 1988 flatbed Chevrolet truck. According to police, Moffitt reached speeds of 60 mph before running a red light and broadsiding a car carrying 8-year-old Travis Miles. Miles died at the scene of the 8:30 p.m. crash. Moffitt, 38, was charged with first-degree murder.

Zachery Love was stealing items from a defunct clothing store when an officer started a car chase that ended with Love's fatal crash into a utility pole, police said.

Oregon County chief deputy Nathan Murphy died after a head-on collision with Robert N. Raines, who was fleeing from a Missouri State Trooper. The chase began at around 8:30 a.m., when a trooper tried to stop Raines for a traffic violation on US 60. The pursuit continued into Oregon County at speeds of more than 100 mph before Raines' vehicle struck Murphy's squad car on a county road north of Alton. Murphy was reportedly on his way to cut Murphy off at an intersection. Both vehicles burst into flames following the collision. Murphy was pronounced dead at a hospital. Raines, 23, sustained serious injuries. In 2002, Raines pleaded guilty to a charge of manslaughter and was sentenced to seven years in state prison and ordered to pay a $5,000 fine.

Bernice Martinez, Ashley Martinez, Christina Martinez and Desiree Guzman were killed when their car was struck by a driver fleeing Stockton Unified School District police officer Tim Kegarice.

Bernice Martinez, Ashley Martinez, Christina Martinez and Desiree Guzman were killed when their car was struck by a driver fleeing Stockton Unified School District police officer Tim Kegarice.

Kathy Hollands, Brandy Hollands and Jennifer Parsons were killed by an unrelated vehicle carrying three people being pursued for allegedly attempted to steal CDs and DVDs from Walmart. The pursued vehicle ran a red light at high speeds and crashed into the side of Kathy Hollands' Chevrolet Cavalier.

An unnamed 33-year-old man was killed in Alhambra while trying to run from a CHP officer who was citing him for a carpool violation.

Shortly before dawn on Feb. 27, Officer Christopher Hansen was driving north along Aurora Avenue North while responding to a nearby traffic stop as a backup officer. His cruiser struck Silvesan, 31, as he was pedaling his mountain bike across the intersection at North 90th Street.

Ada Taylor was killed about a block from her home after a Buick fleeing police crashed into her car. The nearly two-mile chase reportedly began when Gerald L. Johnson fled a traffic stop, and went through several residential neighborhoods until the officer determined it was too dangerous to continue, according to police.

Rick Brekke was killed when his car was hit by a vehicle fleeing police. Aaron Michael Williams, 28, reportedly failed to yield to police in Morro Bay.

Kenneth Griffin was fleeing from police in a stolen minivan when he slammed into a car driven by Rose Klopfenstein, killing her.

Gordon C. Harris was killed when he crashed into a parked vehicle, a tree and a fire hydrant while trying to flee an officer.

Spencer Peek, 22, of Enterprise, Ala., was charged with second-degree murder after police say he and Robert Bonds, 23, led a Hinton police officer on a chase in a stolen vehicle. The chase ended when the car veered off historic Route 66 and plummeted some 20 feet below into a creek bed, killing Bonds.

Lucia Cristaudo was taken hostage during a robbery and died when the getaway vehicle crashed during a subsequent police chase. Robert S. Custon, one of the robbery suspects, also died. Christopher M. Andrews and Custon had reportedly held up Midwest Cash, demanding money, jewelry and guns from Cristaudo, the store manager. Police cornered the men in the store, and Custon took Cristaudo hostage, using her as a human shield on his way to the parking lot. Andrews led police on a high-speed chase until the vehicle crashed into a tree.

Julian Bulat and Godyin Tran were suspects in a robbery who fled police and crashed, killing them both.

Ethel McClay was killed after a driver fleeing police in an stolen 1991 Honda Accord ran a stop sign and crashed into her car.

Two officers apparently observed Esau Cade coming out of an apartment complex parking lot at a high rate of speed and began following him. Near the intersection of Ninth Avenue and Jersey Street, the two officers turned on their lights to pull over Cade. Cade refused to stop and continued north on Jersey for several blocks, rolling through a stop sign at 13th Avenue. At that point, they turned off their lights but kept following Cade. A short time later, Cade ran a red light at an intersection, striking the left rear of Debbie Boose's vehicle. Her car spun about halfway around and slammed into a light pole on the corner. Cade's car hit a curb, flipped onto its roof and ejected him. Carney said Cade was traveling at least 60 mph when his car hit Boose's vehicle.

Three burglary suspects in a car being tracked by two police vehicles and a helicopter fled at speeds up to 95 MPH through neighborhood streets until it plowed into a bus stop, killing the car's driver Juan P. Alvarez and two of those waiting for a bus, Bertha Acuna and her boyfriend Richard Rojas. The police chief told reporters, "It was not what we consider to be a police chase."

Three burglary suspects in a car being tracked by two police vehicles and a helicopter fled at speeds up to 95 MPH through neighborhood streets until it plowed into a bus stop, killing the car's driver Juan P. Alvarez and two of those waiting for a bus, Bertha Acuna and her boyfriend Richard Rojas. The police chief told reporters, "It was not what we consider to be a police chase."

Thomas Anthony Savas and Sophie Xanthos Savas were killed in a collision with officer Charles Croix's patrol car.

A brief police pursuit of a stolen pickup truck through the north San Fernando Valley ended when the truck crashed into another vehicle, killing one man and injuring at least three other people.

John C. Hyde died when his pickup didn't make a curve and ran off the road while being pursued by police.

At around 11:15 p.m., driver Toribio Murillo Jr. and passenger Andrew Gitzen died after their car left a rural Lincoln County road while fleeing deputies, slammed into a hickory tree and caught fire.

Guadalupe Arevalos' van was hit by a bus that had been hijacked by a shooting suspect holding a gun to the driver's head while being chased by police in downtown L.A.

The families of Justin Craig Harrison, 21, and James Robert Wise III, 20, filed a wrongful death complaint that accused West Pelzer police Lt. Mark Patterson of endangering the men by pursuing them down a dark, curvy road and failing to assist them after their car crashed. Nineteen-year-old Jeremy Parham, who was driving the two men in his girlfriend's Jeep Cherokee while legally drunk, was also killed in the wreck.

Police said they saw Jeff Hoover driving erratically on westbound I-69 near Dort Highway at about 12:20 a.m. Hoover allegedly failed to stop after police activated lights and siren. Police pursued Hoover to the I-75 interchange where he lost control of his vehicle, left the roadway and rolled over. Hoover was ejected from the vehicle and was pronounced dead at a hospital.

An unidentified 17-year-old boy admitted he drove 100 mph to elude police, who began pursuing him in Dover after he and his friends were spotted trying to break into a car. He lost control of the 1994 Mitsubishi 3000 GT while trying to round a traffic circle, and the car struck a utility pole and flipped. His friend, 21-year-old Antwan Corbett of Newark, was killed.

Phillip Harrell died from injuries he sustained during a two-vehicle accident that occurred while he was fleeing from St. Helena Parish Sheriff's deputies.

Milo Flores was killed when his car was hit head-on by one driven by William Tanielian, a robbery suspect fleeing police whose alleged accomplice, Anthony Almendarez was shot and killed by LAPD officers later that day.

John Albert Gillis reportedly fled police after getting caught breaking into an East China Township home shortly before 2 p.m.. Trooper Steven Kramer and a Marysville officer pursued Gillis' Dodge Shadow as he drove the wrong way on I-94 and then I-69. The chase ended east of Wadhams Road in Kimball Township when Gillis crashed his vehicle head-on into a car carrying Nicholas Ackerman and Gayle Ackerman, killing them both. Gillis was convicted of murder in the couple's death and sentenced to life in prison without parole in 2002.

Police Officer Sgt. William Miley rear ended a car with five men, two of whom died

McCain was killed last night after the motorcycle he was driving slammed into a sport-utility vehicle. Witnesses to the horrific crash say Columbus police were chasing the motorcyclist. Columbus police said they weren't chasing the bike but simply trying to stop a speeder on Whittier Street.

Larry Eugene Boyd was killed when his car drove off I-15 on the Cajon Pass during a police pursuit from Barstow that reached speeds of more than 130 mph.

Myra Ann Rivera was killed when her car collided with one driven by Daniel Umpriani, who was fleeing police.

Allen fled a police stop with LaShunda Freeman on the back of his motorcycle. He crashed, killing both.

An officer responding to a domestic disturbance call ran a red light and hit a van, killing passenger Scott Hamm. The officer was reportedly going 57 mph in a 30 mph zone. According to police, the squad car's emergency lights and siren were on at the time. In 2003, the ZPD agreed to pay $500,000 to Hamm's family.

A false robbery report and a stolen newspaper vending machine led to a police pursuit that ended with a 1980 Chrysler LeBaron crashing and killing the driver, Dwayne Woodrum and seriously injuring the passenger. An officer allegedly saw three men trying to shove an object into the back of the LeBaron. When they saw the officer, two of the men jumped in the car and fled while the third took off on foot. Police caught up with the man who ran, and he claimed the other men tried to rob him. Two officers saw the men in the car and gave chase until Woodrum lost control of the LeBaron and crashed into a tree in front of the fire station.

Dorothy Zakrzewicz was killed when the car she was in was hit by a vehicle fleeing police. Julie B. Zaitz, 35, was charged with reckless homicide, felony fleeing and eluding police, aggravated driving under the influence of drugs, and aggravated battery of a police officer.

McLean, 33, of Battle Ground, Wash., died instantly when a Datsun 280Z driven by Wayne Cole at speeds reaching 120 mph smashed into a tree in Gresham on June 24.

A detective saw two men, whom he suspected of drug activity, in a Jeep on Merritt Boulevard, police said. The men fled and fired several shots at police while leading them through residential streets. At Holabird and Monumental avenues, the Jeep ran a red light and was struck by a pickup truck, killing Dwayne Lynch and injuring his passenger.

Kevin Auggie Fincke was killed when he lost control of his motorcycle and crashed into a pickup truck while fleeing from the CHP.

Charles Sims was killed in a crash while fleeing from deputy Davin Smith, who'd tried to stop him on a traffic violation.

Patrol Officer Wollam was killed when his cruiser was struck head-on by a vehicle driven by Robert M. Esper. The vehicle was being pursued by law enforcement officers for several traffic violations. While in pursuit, the vehicle crossed the median into opposing traffic and struck Officer Wollam's cruiser. Officer Wollam was killed instantly. The driver and two passengers were also killed in this accident.

Patrol Officer Wollam was killed when his cruiser was struck head-on by a vehicle driven by Robert M. Esper. The vehicle was being pursued by law enforcement officers for several traffic violations. While in pursuit, the vehicle crossed the median into opposing traffic and struck Officer Wollam's cruiser. Officer Wollam was killed instantly. The driver and two passengers were also killed in this accident.

Smith was fleeing Richmond County sheriff's deputies on a motorcycle when he lost control of his bike and hit a guardrail, police said.