Stolen taxi crashes into downtown businesses, police investigating
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A stolen taxi crashed into downtown businesses in the early hours of Saturday morning and police are investigating.
A stolen taxi crashed into downtown businesses in the early hours of Saturday morning, and police are investigating.
Officers responded to a report of a stolen Regina Co-op taxi around 2:48 a.m. in the 1100 block of Angus Street, according to a release from the Regina Police Service (RPS).
Police spotted the vehicle and attempted a traffic stop but the vehicle evaded police.
The stolen taxi was spotted just after 3 a.m., as it “rammed into the front doors of a business in the 2200 block of Broad Street.”
For about the next 15 minutes, officers observed the vehicle driving slowly and tried to get into a position to deploy a spike belt, the release said.
Just after 3:15 a.m., police said the taxi was seen driving through the front of a business in the 1800 block of Hamilton Street. It continued north and then west onto 11th Avenue.
