LORAIN — A car chase that started in South Lorain and ended in Sheffield left one police cruiser disabled after it was struck four times by the fleeing vehicle, according to a police report.

Sunday morning around 2:40 a.m. police received a report of a reckless and possibly drunken driver heading north on Grove Avenue. An officer parked at Homewood Drive and Grove spotted the vehicle and watched as it made a few turns and hit the curb at East 41st Street and Gary Avenue.

When the officer tried to stop the car, it backed up and hit the cruiser’s front right bumper, then drove off and hit another curb. At least four males were in the car, a police report said.

The officer followed the vehicle through Lorain east toward Sheffield and Avon, the report said. His cruiser was struck three more times by the suspect and ultimately had to be towed.

The officer radioed for help as the vehicle drove north on East River Road and east onto French Creek Road, the report said. The officer said the vehicle went airborne as it crossed the railroad tracks on French Creek Road.

Avon and Sheffield officers found the car abandoned near French Creek and Detroit roads at the same time they were receiving reports of three juvenile males running through yards at French Creek, the report said.

The car’s owner told police he’d loaned it to a man who’d driven him home from a bar that night, but he said he didn’t know who the man was.

A search for the car’s occupants was unsuccessful, but a resident living near where the chase ended may have given two of them a ride home shortly after the chase ended, the report said.

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