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.
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.
Video showed the man nervously filling up his tank, pacing alongside the driver’s side of his car with his shirt pulled over his face as the news helicopter hovered above.
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.
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.
“He couldn’t be acting any more suspicious, I’ll tell you that,” the new chopper reporter noted.
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.
Moments later, the driver, aware of the news and police helicopters, drives under an overpass of the 10 Freeway to evade detection.
While covered from sight, he ditches his car, which rolls into a light pole as cops finally catch up, video showed.
The news chopper reporter called it, “Maybe his smartest move of the night.”
Police prowlers are shown slowly driving around the scene in an apparent search for the man who successfully fled from the car chase.
California Highway Patrol said they believe the man could have been picked up by another driver who aided in his escape, according to KABC.
