Car chase ends in head-on crash

An hour-long car chase that led police across the city ended this afternoon with a wrong-way head-on collision on a Southwest Freeway entrance ramp. Details are still being reported, but the chase apparently began when police tried to pull the suspect over to question him about a domestic assault case in Montgomery County.

Over the course of the chase, the man drove on nearly every freeway in Houston, including I-45, the Hardy Toll Road, Beltway 8, I-10, Highway 290 and Highway 59.

Officers attempted to use spikes to flatten his tires, but those were ineffectual. Multiple law enforcement agencies have been used in the pursuit, occasionally sending word ahead to have more officers waiting.

It was apparently a very high-speed chase — as KTRK noted, "he managed to elude the Channel 13 helicopter, which can go 100 miles per hour." At about 3:30, the chase ended when the man tried to exit the Southwest Freeway going the wrong way on an entrance ramp at Shepherd. He ran into a vehicle containing a woman and a baby, who didn't seem to be hurt; the suspect was pulled from his car and was apparently taken to the hospital.