A police chase near us

 Here is a bit of local crime drama we nearly witnessed. It happened almost next door, or rather in front of our houses. Anyway, we live in a dead end and two days ago we were doing the back to school run. We first drove back Wolfie's classmate, who lives two streets way from ours. As we were nearby, I noticed a dodgy looking man being held by a police officer. I told my wife to be careful. Then, once Wolfie's friend was safe home with her parents (and the guy and the police officer gone), we drove back to our place. We saw at the end of our road a police car, parked behind another car that had hit the wooden fence. There were skid marks on the grass. We could reconstitute the scnee we had missed by a minute or two: they gave chase to the suspect I had seen, who may or may not have known he was driving to a dead end, he hit the bonnet of his car with the fence, then ran off. 

A few minutes later, we saw a few more police cars coming to our street. Some were unidentified. It took about an hour for the whole thing to wrap up. We heard a knock on the door, a police officer asked us if we'd seen anything, we said no, we asked what had happened, he told us briefly that someone refused to stop his vehicle when they summoned him to do it and then made a run for it. Now after this, I think there is some source material for a crime story and I wish I could have paid more attention to what was happening. In fact, I wish I had seen the drama unfolding, although I am very glad we didn't drive home while the thuggish looking guy was on the run. So yes, we had a bit of local police drama in our street recently.