The chase started at the Tuscan, a restaurant in Price, Utah, after authorities responded to a complaint about a fight at about 1:00am on October 24. It ended when the suspects crashed into a Helper area home which burst into flames and is believed by officers to be burnt to the point that it is unrecoverable. Thankfully the home was unoccupied at the time of the crash. But there are more questions than answers as authorities try to identify the suspects and figure out why they ran in the first place.
Officers never really made contact with the suspects before the chase began. When a Carbon County deputy arrived at the restaurant where the disturbance was reported, he saw a car leaving the parking lot. According to the sheriff, the deputy got out of his vehicle and ordered the driver to stop, to no avail. He was nearly struck as the suspects fled the scene.
A few minutes later a Helper police officer clocked a matching vehicle speeding by at 120mph. The Helper officer and the deputy gave chase, but lost sight of the vehicle. When they noticed dust on a side road they decided to turn back and investigate. They discovered that the suspect vehicle had launched into a house and both the vehicle and the home has burst into flames.
After Helper and Price fire departments put out the fire, two bodies were found in the car and the house was nothing but a burnt out shell.
If you have been injured in a Salt Lake City area accident, or lost someone you love in a deadly Utah crash, please call the Salt Lake City accident attorneys of Hirschi Steele & Baer, PLLC, at 801-990-0500 or contact us online today.
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