ATLANTA — Police have arrested a driver they say took off from a traffic stop and crashed into an apartment complex in Buckhead on Tuesday night.
It happened at the Core at Lindbergh Apartments just before 9 p.m.
“I happened to be home. I heard the sirens of the police cars running by. I heard a big crash, and I came downstairs and I seen a car inside the home of the first-floor apartment,” Jobori Cooke, who lives nearby, told WSB Tonight at 11 p.m.
Police said they were trying to pull a Jeep over in the area, but the driver refused to stop.
Officers said the driver lost control, hit another vehicle, and slammed into the apartment.
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Officers arrested the driver. Two passengers in the SUV and a woman inside the apartment were all hospitalized.
“I’m really worried about the neighbor,” Cooke said. “I heard she’s in the hospital. She was on the couch, relaxing, and a car crashed into her home.”
Channel 2 Action News is working to learn what prompted the traffic stop and the name of the driver arrested.
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