URBANDALE, IA : 2 police chases end in crashes in same vicinity on Thursday, January 19th 2017

An SUV drove through the wall of a garage and out through the overhead door before coming to rest in the driveway Thursday.The crash was reported around 11:40 a.m. at 84th Street and Meredith Drive in Urbandale.

Marion and Alfred Walk said they are lucky to be alive.

"We thought we were part of an explosion," Marion Walk said. "We thought the whole house was going."

Two suspects, who were on the run from police, plowed through the couple's condominium garage, a spot where Alfred Walk frequently works.

"I would have been dead," he said. "I often work with a sander and the saw out there, and I would have been dead."

"We saw all of the garage was gone, and we didn't know why. Where did it go?" Marion Walk said.

The chase started as a routine traffic stop for failure to wear seat belts.

The driver, Conor Forrest, led police on a high-speed chase, reaching speeds of 100 miles per hour before crashing.

The passenger in the vehicle, Kody Murray, was transported by the Urbandale Fire Department to a hospital with minor injuries. After being released, Murray will also be going to the Polk County Jail. Both are facing charges.

A little less than 24 hours earlier, Urbandale police had responded to reports of a man driving erratically.

Police said Zachary Senger flew through a residential neighborhood. The chase ended with a T-bone collision with a DART bus.

Senger is charged with eluding and OWI.

Police also said he's wanted on a probation violation out of Wisconsin related to a sex abuse conviction.

The two chases happened a few blocks apart on Meredith Drive.

Police did not comment on why Forrest initiated the chase Thursday.

The Walk family said they are working to get their garage repaired.

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2 police chases end in crashes in same vicinity