Car Crashes Into Plane Following San Diego High Speed Car Chase
A high speed car chase on June 30, 2009, was led by a 35-year-old man in El Cajon, ending when the stolen car that he was driving crashed through a fence and into a vintage airplane inside a hangar at Gillespie Field. The chase had started around 1 a.m. when El Cajon police pulled over Patrick Michael Ray for driving well in excess of the speed limit, according to El Cajon Police Sgt. Pete Faubel.
Once the police officer had gotten out of his car to approach the vehicle, Ray sped off, driving north at more than 100 mph on Johnson Street near Bradley Avenue. He lost control while making a righthand turn, the vehicle went across a ravine and onto the tarmac at Gillespie Field, and then crashed into a vintage airplane. The impact was so strong it broke one of the airplane wings and damaged an antique car stored there. You can read more about this San Diego high-speed car chase accident in this SanDiegoNewsNetwork.com story.
Ray was treated at a hospital for moderate injuries suffered in the crash. He was the only one injured. Ray was also named in an unspecified outstanding warrant and was arrested and booked into county jail on suspicion of car theft and evading felony, according to Faubel.
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