Speers car chase ends in crash
Bill Richard of Panhandle Cleaning & Restoration prepares to repair a house in Speers that was damaged Monday at the conclusion of a police chase.
Karl Kevin Sullivan II
SPEERS – An Allegheny County man is in custody after state police accused him of speeding away from a traffic stop on Interstate 70, leading police on a chase and crashing into a porch Monday with three passengers in his car, including an infant.
District Judge James Ellis placed Karl Kevin Sullivan II, 28, of McKeesport in Washington County jail. He was arrested following a foot chase after the car crashed into a house at 700 Lewis Ave., records show. A second man in the car also ran from the crash and has not been found.
“It’s insane,” said Julie Trinkala, who lives in the house but was not at home when the crash happened about 4:45 p.m.
Police said a trooper pulled over the sedan Sullivan was driving on I-70 east approaching the Speers interchange about 4:30 p.m.
Sullivan drove off as the trooper approached his car and left I-70 at the Speers exit, with the officer in pursuit at a safe distance, police said.
He make a quick left turn into the otherwise sleepy neighborhood that is reached by only one road. The car then veered off the road, traveled across a front lawn and narrowly missed a tree before it sheared the porch off the front of the two-story frame house. A .38-caliber handgun was thrown from the car shortly after it sped away from the traffic stop, police said.
Trinkala said the woman in the car, who was not identified, and the baby did not appear to have been injured in the crash, which brought the porch roof down on top of the car.
“He came flying down,” she said of the driver.
Sullivan was found a short time later hiding in nearby woods and taken into custody without incident, police said. Police said he was in possession of a small bag of cocaine and a scale. He also was wanted on firearms violations in Allegheny County.
Sullivan was charged with unlawful restraint, endangering the welfare of children, flight, drug possession with intent to deliver, carrying a firearm without a license, drug possession, fleeing from police and reckless endangerment. Ellis set bond at $250,000.