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2 Injured As Wrong-Way Driver Eludes Secret Service

Posted at 4:45 PM, Jul 08, 2018
and last updated 2018-07-08 16:45:50-04

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) – Two people have been injured and a third is at large after a police chase initiated when a Secret Service officer saw a driver going the wrong way in downtown Washington.
    
News outlets report the chase ended in a head-on collision in suburban Virginia on Interstate 66.
    
The Secret Service said one of its officers spotted a car traveling the wrong way on I St. NW in Washington about 4:30 a.m. Sunday. The officer tried to stop the car, but it drove off and crossed into Arlington, Virginia, traveling the wrong way on I-66.
    
The wrong-way driver struck another car and fled on foot. A passenger in his car and the driver of the other vehicle were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

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7/8/2018 2:41:47 PM (GMT -4:00)