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COPPERAS COVE (May 4, 2012)—A 46-year-old Copperas Cove man whose motorcycle was struck from the rear by a passenger car whose driver was leading officers on what police said was a low-speed pursuit was in critical condition Friday at Scott & White Hospital in Temple.
The driver of the car, a 57-year-old Copperas Cove resident, was taken to Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center with what police described Friday as “a medical condition directly related to the incident.”
Names were not released Friday.
The collision between the car and motorcycle triggered a chain-reaction crash involving a half-dozen vehicles, police said Friday.
Four other people were taken to hospitals with injuries police said were not life threatening.
The chase started at around 4:30 p.m. Thursday after a Cove police officer attempted to pull over a 1999 Ford Contour in the 400 block of Veterans Avenue for several traffic violations.
The driver refused to stop and led the officer from Veterans Avenue to Robertson Avenue and then onto East Highway 190 where the Ford slammed into the eastbound motorcycle, which was stopped at a red light at an intersection along with other vehicles, police said.
“The operator never slowed down and was traveling at about 45 miles per hour when he struck a stopped eastbound motorcyclist from behind,” police said in a press release late Friday afternoon.
After hitting the motorcycle, the Ford continued to head toward the intersection, causing the chain-reaction crash involving four other vehicles, police said.
A passerby took a picture of police detaining a man at the scene of the accident, but police said Friday the driver of the Ford has not been arrested, although the incident remains under investigation.
