High-Speed L.A. Police Chase Ends in Gruesome Crash on Freeway, on Video

A high-speed chase through the Los Angeles area Friday afternoon came to an abrupt end when the suspect’s vehicle clipped a huge dump truck and spun out spectacularly across multiple lanes … and the result on live TV was grisly.

The pursuit of a theft suspect in a Honda SUV started in the Simi Valley area north of L.A., where the suspect was traveling a freeway at high rates of speed … going over 100 MPH for long stretches, weaving in between other vehicles.

The erratic driver kept going at breakneck speeds through the San Fernando Valley … where at one point the vehicle was clocked moving at 118 MPH.

And that’s when the chase took a gruesome turn, on the 210 Freeway in Pasadena — the SUV clipped a giant dump truck, destroying the driver’s side of the car as it spun around in lanes.

Local news helicopters captured the SUV disintegrating as it finally wobbled to a stop.