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Vanishing Point is a 1971 American action film directed by Richard C. Sarafian, starring Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, and Dean Jagger. [3] It focuses on a disaffected ex-policeman and race car driver delivering a muscle car cross-country to California while high on speed ("uppers" in the story), being chased by police, and meeting various characters along the way.
Due to problems with landing the Lockheed U-2, a system was implemented where a second pilot would chase the U-2 (termed "mobile") and help guide the aircraft down to earth. The USAF usually utilized a performance car for this task. [7] In 1986, the USAF was looking for a replacement for the Chevrolet El Camino as a chase car for the U-2.
Maindrian Pace is a respectable insurance investigator who runs an automobile chop shop in Long Beach, California.He is also the leader of a professional car theft ring that steals and resells stolen cars, disguising them using vehicle identification numbers, engines, parts, and details (such as parking decals and bumper stickers) sourced from legitimately purchased wrecks.
A woman was killed and three other people were injured after a police chase in the Los Angeles area ended in a crash. According to reports from CBS News, NBC Los Angeles and KTLA, Los Angeles ...
About 2 a.m., a San Bernardino County sheriff's deputy in Rancho Cucamonga tried to pull over a DUI suspect who refused to stop, starting a car chase that led into Upland and ended with the ...
When the stolen car reached Colfax, it headed south on South Auburn Road to Placer Hills Road, where the driver lost control at 5:50 a.m. and crashed, according to the news release.
Car chases are often captured on news broadcast due to the video footage recorded by police cars, police aircraft, and news aircraft participating in the chase. Car chases are also a popular subject with media and audiences due to their intensity, drama and the innate danger of high-speed driving, and thus are common content in fiction ...
Police in Northern California briefly chased a Volkswagen that sped away during a traffic incident Wednesday — and were surprised to find a 9-year-old boy behind the wheel, authorities said.