A high-speed chase on the Glenn Highway involving a Wasilla policeman and a speeding vehicle ended in a head-on collision with a pickup bursting into flames and two people sent to local hospitals just after 5 p.m. on Friday.
A Wasilla police officer first spotted the woman driving recklessly in a red GMC pickup near the Seward Meridian and Parks Highway intersection. After he flagged her down, she accelerated her vehicle with him standing in front if it, ran a red light and headed to the Glenn Highway.
At speeds up to 100 mph, she eluded officers by driving in the median, swerving in and out of rush-hour traffic, hitting a bridge guardrail, rear-ending another vehicle and ending up in the oncoming lane of the Glenn Highway near the Palmer Hay Flats, where she collided with a 2000 Ford Expedition.
A Wasilla officer pulled the woman from the burning vehicle; a helicopter transported her to an Anchorage hospital.
The female driver in the Ford Expedition was trapped in the wreckage before being extracted; an ambulance drove her to the Mat-Su Regional Hospital.
The names and status of the drivers were not available Friday.
North and southbound traffic on the highway was stopped temporarily.
The Alaska State Troopers are investigating the incident.
-- Anchorage Daily News
