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A dramatic car chase that crisscrossed the Denver area during the Wednesday morning commute started when a man stole an SUV with a 4-year-old boy inside and ended after he carjacked two other vehicles and struck a state trooper.
Ryan Stone, a 28-year-old wanted in a drug case, covered about 75 miles before he caused a multi-vehicle crash at an intersection in Lone Tree, south of Denver. He then ran across a parking lot before appearing to give up, lying face-down in the snow as officers approached and pinned him to the ground.
Two bicyclists are dead after they were hit by a pickup truck in Lehi.
Police say the crash happened about 6 a.m. Wednesday near the intersection of Redwood Road and 2100 North.
Authorities say the driver apparently didn't see the two men as they were trying to make a turn.
The truck driver was taken to the hospital with minor injuries.
A Vancouver man who is suspected of drunk driving was injured in a single-vehicle crash on state Highway 14 in Skamania County Wednesday evening. Robert A. Haverkate, 59, was driving a 2000 Jeep Cherokee west on the highway about 7:15 p.m. five miles west of North Bonneville, when the Jeep left the roadway and went into a drainage ditch, according to a memo issued by the Washington State Patrol. The vehicle then returned to the roadway, crossed the highway and struck the eastbound guardrail which caused it to overturn, according to the memo. The vehicle came to rest on the center line.