By Angela Hill

Update: Early morning single vehicle rollover

Jul 28, 2011 | 7:48 AM

A vehicle went off the road at a high speed this morning while trying to evade arrest.

“The driver was ejected from the vehicle and car burst into flames at the scene,” said Sgt. Kelly McLean, spokesman, with the Prince Albert Police Service.

He was arrested on scene and taken to hospital with minor injuries, before being taken to court at a later date.

The male allegedly broke into a house on the 2600 block of Six A Avenue West and took keys and a car from the garage, said McLean said.

The vehicle was located and the individual was pulled over during a high risk vehicle stop near 32nd Street West and Sixth Avenue West, around 6 a.m. today.

International Spotlight

P.A.'s Howe one of 4 Sask. born players named to Canada's World Junior roster

49m ago

National

Ottawa to remove 30% investment cap for Canadian pension funds

4h ago

Budget woes

Golf and curling centre faces grim season without financial boost

7h ago

He began to get out of the car, but when a second police officer pulled up, he appeared to change his mind, McLean said.

“Then he … shut the door and took off at a very high rate of speed northbound on Sixth Avenue West.”

The driver lost control between 19th and 18th Street West. The car went off the road ripping through a yard, taking out fences and trees, before coming to rest, on its roof, at the end of the block, in an empty lot.

“There was also a pedestrian in the area that was hit by flying debris and he was also taken to hospital by ambulance,” McLean said.

Some residents in the area woke up to the sound of the crash.

“It just sounded like a huge explosion,” said Marcy Detillieux, who lives along 19th Street West.

“So I looked in the backyard and at that point there was police officers, an ambulance and a couple of fire trucks and I look and there’s a fire going on.”

Fire fighters got the blaze out and police began their investigation.

Detillieux then got ready for work. On her way out of the house, she noticed her neighbours dog had gotten out.

When she went to take the pet back, her neighbour invited her in to see the damage in the backyard.

“Her whole fence … everything was like it exploded. Her whole fence was gone there was apparently a car flipped up on its top,” she said.

“The woman that her fence is gone now, if the car … had been four or five feet closer to the house, her house would have been torn apart.

“I’m just shaking that was quite the thing to wake up to.”

Throughout the events both a police officer and a fire fighter sustained minor injuries.

Driver will be remanded into custody and will appear in court at a later date.

ahill@panow.com