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(KSL News) A stolen car, a chase through downtown; the suspect jumps from a moving vehicle and a trooper comes to the rescue.
In the middle of the night, Utah Highway Patrol trooper Dustin Allison tried to pull a vehicle over for a cracked windshield on I-15 around 3300 South.
The man fled, leading police on a chase along side streets, up and down the city's freeway corridor. Allison thought he'd stopped the suspect once near 18th south.
Trooper Dustin Allison: "At which point I was able to hit the vehicle, to where it did a 180, it turned back and went the other way."
Eventually the driver jumped out of his car while it was still moving and ran from police. The vehicle was headed toward homes, so a trooper purposely hit it with his car to slow it down and guide it into a chain link fence.
Troopers, Salt Lake police and some dogs searched for the man for about an hour, but so far they haven't found him.
The vehicle he was driving was stolen in Murray Sunday morning.
