(KAIR)--A pursuit leads to a crash in Leavenworth, sending the suspect to the hospital for treatment.
The Kansas Highway Patrol identifies him as 26-year-old Todd Burnett, of Kansas City, Missouri.
The pursuit turned crash happened Tuesday morning, around 8:40, as Platte County, Missouri Sheriff’s Deputies pursued Burnett’s westbound car on Leavenworth’s Metropolitan Avenue.
The Patrol’s report states that as Burnett attempted to turn southbound onto 6th Street, his car left the road to the right and struck a fire hydrant.
Burnett, not wearing a seatbelt, was transported to Cushing Medical Center, in Leavenworth, for the treatment of what the Patrol called a suspected minor injury.
It’s not immediately known what sparked the pursuit.
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