BATON ROUGE, LA : 2 dead, 3 critically injured following police chase that ended in head-on collision on Monday, 26th October, 2020

Two people are dead and three others, including a young child, were critically injured following a police chase over a reportedly stolen vehicle that ended in a head-on collision, authorities say.
According to the Pointe Coupee Parish Sheriff’s Office, the chase began in New Roads on the evening of Monday Oct. 26 around 6:30 p.m. and involved a 2010 Chevrolet Camaro that was reported stolen from Leak Avenue in Baton Rouge Saturday, Oct. 24. Officers with the New Roads Police Department began chasing the car, then called for assistance from the sheriff’s office. Sheriff Rene Thibodeaux says the driver refused to stop at a barricade formed by parking a deputy’s unit across two lanes of traffic, and drove past a deputy in the process of setting up a spike strip, but the vehicle did not hit the spikes.
The chase ended when the Camaro crossed over the ditch median and hit a 2000 Ford Mustang head-on in Baton Rouge on Scenic Highway near Old Rafe Mayer Road, officials say.
LSP says both drivers were killed. The two people killed have been identified as Stanlasija Brue, 17, and Thaddeus Johnson, 22, both of New Roads. Brue was driving the Camaro and Johnson was driving the Mustang, LSP says. Neither person was wearing a seat belt at the time of the wreck, investigators report.

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