A driver of a reportedly stolen vehicle stopped for gas in the middle of a high-speed chase with California cops on Friday and still got away, wild news helicopter footage showed.<\/p>\n
The driver pulled up to a pump at a Shell gas station in Wilshire, Los Angeles, in a pilfered blue Infinity sedan in the middle of a chase with police that saw speeds of up to 100 MPH, KABC reported.<\/p>\n
Video showed the man nervously filling up his tank, pacing alongside the driver\u2019s side of his car with his shirt pulled over his face as the news helicopter hovered above.<\/p>\n
A man suspected of stealing a car, covers his face with a shirt as he fills up the stolen vehicle at a gas station during a police chase in Los Angeles on Aug. 22, 2025. ABC News<\/p>\n
The driver pulled up to a pump at a Shell gas station in Wilshire, Los Angeles, in a pilfered blue Infinity sedan in the middle of a chase with police that saw speeds of up to 100 MPH. ABC News<\/p>\n
The reporter in the chopper stated that no police vehicles were currently in the vicinity, allowing the man to fill up his tank for a over a minute.<\/p>\n
As he paced next to his open door, apparently ready to bolt at any moment, a motorcycle rider sat at the adjacent pump blissfully ignorant of the entire situation, video showed.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe couldn\u2019t be acting any more suspicious, I\u2019ll tell you that,\u201d the new chopper reporter noted.<\/p>\n
The driver then pulls the pump from his vehicle, carefully screws on the gas nozzle, and speeds away from the Shell station as police begin to track him down.<\/p>\n
Police search for the stolen vehicle as the suspect fuels up at the nearby gas station. ABC News<\/p>\n
The reporter in the chopper stated that no police vehicles were currently in the vicinity, allowing the man to fill up his tank for over a minute. ABC News<\/p>\n
Moments later, the driver, aware of the news and police helicopters, drives under an overpass of the 10 Freeway to evade detection.<\/p>\n
While covered from sight, he ditches his car, which rolls into a light pole as cops finally catch up, video showed.<\/p>\n
The news chopper reporter called it, \u201cMaybe his smartest move of the night.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police prowlers are shown slowly driving around the scene in an apparent search for the man who successfully fled from the car chase.<\/p>\n
California Highway Patrol said they believe the man could have been picked up by another driver who aided in his escape, according to KABC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver of a reportedly stolen vehicle stopped for gas in the middle of a high-speed chase with…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":171565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,59145,97985,2961,224,5337,1154],"class_list":{"0":"post-171564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-car-chase","11":"tag-car-chases","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-losangeles","15":"tag-us-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}