A TEENAGER led three police forces on a two-hour, 36-mile chase around Wrexham, Shropshire and Cheshire.
On Sunday at 12.44pm North Wales Police was alerted to a red Rover 215 which it was reported didn't seem to know where it was going and was being driven erratically on the A525 in Bangor-on-Dee.
The force's helicopter was deployed to investigate, which triggered an airborne pursuit as the driver sped toward Bronington.
There the driver took the A525 around Whitchurch, where the West Mercia aircraft joined the chase, and travelled toward Malpas on the A41.
Somewhere on the A41 the driver turned around and Cheshire Constabulary became involved, sending its aircraft to assist. The chase went back through Bronington on the A525 and ended on the A528 in Eyton.
Throughout the chase three police cars from North Wales tracked the car on the instructions from the air but did not enter into pursuit, waiting until the car stopped before moving in.
There, the 15-year-old driver and his female passenger left the vehicle and tried to escape but were arrested by North Wales Police at 2.57pm.
'The vehicle was tracked by air until it stopped, when officers on the ground moved in to arrest the two people involved,' said a North Wales Police spokes-woman.
Former Whitchurch deputy mayor Lyn Hopkins was relaxing at her home in Mill Lane, Bronington, when she was disturbed by the wail of police sirens during the chase.
'My husband and I could hear the sirens going off and the cars were tearing up and down Wrexham Road then Ellesmere Road,' she said. 'You don't expect this kind of thing to happen to happen on a quiet Sunday afternoon.
'I'd like to know how much this chase has cost the taxpayer. These kids are endangering lives and costing people money at the same time.'
