The driver who stole a limo party bus and led police on a wild highway car chase through Southern California on Tuesday has been arrested, according to authorities.
A woman, who has not been publicly identified as of press time, surrendered to authorities upon crashing a 2018 black Ford party bus from Top Dog Limo Bus into a car, KTLA reported. The chase itself was caught on video from above by KTLA’s Sky 5 helicopter. A woman in the Hyundai sedan that was hit is reported to have suffered moderate injuries, according to NBC4.
“We get a call from a driver off the 405 complaining to us,” said Susie Leitzke, the owner of Top Dog Limo Bus, of San Diego. She said the caller told her the driver was “doing 90 mph.”
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“I explained to him that was a stolen bus, and he stayed on the phone until we called dispatch and got somebody out there,” Leitzke said.
Leitzke said the actual limo driver made a stop in Pacific Beach at a marina to pick people up. That’s when a woman got on the bus and drove off with it.
The San Diego Police Department received a report of the stolen bus around 10:15 a.m., FOX 5 San Diego reported. Authorities had been searching for about an hour and a half when Leitzke said she received the call that one of her party buses was being driven haphazardly, according to KTLA.
Around 11:45 a.m. the California Highway Patrol began pursuing the bus, which was traveling northbound on Interstate 405 in Los Angeles. After about an hour, the party bus exited onto Pearblossom Highway, ramming into a silver sedan just moments later, according to the CHP. San Diego police said they were not involved in the highway chase of the bus, which the CHP took over.
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The Washington Examiner reached out to the CHP and the SDPD for a statement but did not receive a response.
