From AL.com:

A Marshall Space Flight Center employee was killed today when a woman being pursued by Huntsville police crashed into the man’s truck on Redstone Arsenal.

The woman’s vehicle T-boned 50-year-old Darren Spurlock’s truck at Martin and Rideout roads. He died at the scene, police said.

Five other people were injured in the chase on Memorial Parkway and Martin Road that ended about four miles inside Gate 1.

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Officers in unmarked cars pursued the women down South Memorial Parkway, where the suspect’s car sideswiped a Buick LaSabre in front of the old Ramada Inn, Johnson said. The Buick’s driver was taken to Crestwood Hospital with minor injuries.

Marked patrol cars joined the chase and followed the vehicle west on Martin Road. Redstone Arsenal employee David Williams said he saw the tan car swerve, almost on two wheels, between the concrete barriers at the gate.

“They were going at least 30, 40 miles per hour,” he said. “It’s all I can do to thread (the barriers) at a slow speed. Then they hit that concrete curb and left the car’s bumper behind.”

Williams said security guards waved Huntsville police officers through the gate, where they continued pursuit.

Authorities would not say whether officers were still chasing the women when they hit Spurlock’s vehicle.

Terrible tragedy.

I hope that the police terminated the high speed pursuit once inside the Arsenal. Without going into details that could compromise OpSec, there are means by which they could have made sure the suspects did not escape the Arsenal once they managed to enter. The police and MPs could have (relatively) calmly surrounded the suspects from multiple directions without causing a multi-car accident involving lots of innocent people.

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