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Updated: 8:02 p.m. Monday, Jan. 28, 2013 | Posted: 3:33 p.m. Monday, Jan. 28, 2013

5 taken to hospitals after high-speed collision

Stolen car crash
Two adults and four juveniles believed to be in a stolen car that crashed Monday afternoon could be charged criminally, the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office is saying.

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Officials are on scene of a crash involving two vehicles and a school bus that was side-swiped on Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. Jim Noelker/Staff

By Frazier Smith

HARRISON TWP. —

Two adults and four juveniles, in a car believed to have been stolen that collided with another car Monday afternoon, could be charged at least with receiving stolen property, a Montgomery County sheriff’s captain said.

The collision that involved a stolen black Chevrolet sedan and a Pontiac Bonneville occurred when the black sedan T-boned the Bonneville at Catalpa Drive and Siebenthaler Avenue.

Dayton police issued the initial alert about the black car, and a sheriff’s deputy on patrol in the area of Philadelphia Drive and Siebenthaler activated his lights and tried to affect a traffic stop. The black car, which was being driven at high speed, did not stop. The deputy then turned off his lights and followed the car, according to the sheriff’s office.

As the deputy followed, the car turned on Catalpa Drive at high speed and apparently was weaving in and out of traffic when it T-boned the Bonneville.

The driver of the Bonneville and four people in the speeding stolen car were taken to hospitals, suffering from non-life threatening injuries, according to the sheriff’s office. The people in the stolen car were believed to range in age from 12 years to 16 years old.

“I heard that the vehicle was left running. Maybe the person was starting their car up to get it ready to travel and these individuals jumped in,” sheriff’s Capt Daryl Wilson said of the car that was stolen.

A school bus, which had no students on it, was side-swiped just before the collision. There was no immediate word about the condition of its driver, but it was believed that person’s injuries were not serious.

“Probably assuming that our deputy was somewhere behind them chasing them. Obviously, they didn’t want to get caught so they continued to drive recklessly without regard to anybody’s safety at all,” Wilson said.

“The stolen vehicle was driving very dangerously, erratically, went around a school bus, blew through the intersection and that’s when they hit an innocent bystander, ” Wilson said.

Rob Rogers, who identified himself as a care provider, told News Center 7 he was driving to a Kroger store on Siebenthaler when he witnessed the two-car crash.

“I could see a car coming at me at a high rate of speed,” Rogers said. “When they hit, it was like an explosion.”

After the crash, he said, “I saw girls jumping out and running in all directions, and sheriff’s [deputies] with guns drawn.”

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