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A police pursuit that started in Dewey ended with a car flipping on its top at the Tuxedo Bridge in Bartlesville on Friday night.

According to Dewey Police Sergeant Jimmy Gray, officers clocked a car going over 90 miles per hour near the Journey Home in Bartlesville along Highway 75. He said the suspect vehicle allegedly hit another car in front of the Casey's General Store in Dewey before taking off southbound on Hwy 75 at the high rate of speed.

Dewey Police Chief Mike Shea said officers would eventually follow the vehicle westbound on Tuxedo Boulevard until it hit a guardrail multiple times at the Tuxedo Bridge. He said that caused the suspect's vehicle to flip onto its top.

Three juveniles - including the driver - are said to have been in the vehicle. They appeared to be uninjured. Chief Shea said the driver was a 15-year-old girl. He said the driver had two passengers: a 14-year-old female and a 14-year-old male.

Chief Shea said the juveniles were on the scene waiting for their parents. He said the Oklahoma Department of Juvenile Affairs was also involved after the crash.

The hit and run was reported after the suspect vehicle was caught on radar going over 90 mph. Chief Shea said the juvenile driver told police that she was turning into another lane near Casey's in Dewey and failed to see the car. He said the juvenile panicked because she knew she didn't have a license, so she took off at a high rate of speed.

The Bartlesville Police Department was working the accident since it occurred in Bartlesville.

On Saturday, Chief Shea said one of the passengers in the suspect vehicle was taken by EMS to the Ascension St. John Jane Phillips Medical Center. He said that passenger fractured their spine in the crash. The other passenger is said to have broken their arm. That passenger was taken to the hospital by their parent(s).

Photo courtesy: Sgt. Jimmy Gray, Dewey Police