Michigan State Police reportedly took two suspects into custody Thursday morning after a high-speed chase through Midtown Detroit resulted in the destruction of a brand-new 2021 C8 Corvette Stingray. Thankfully, no injuries were reported.
Images courtesy of Click On Detroit.
Per a recent report from Click On Detroit, a new 2021 C8 Corvette Stingray was reported stolen around 10 a.m. from a dealership in the northern Metro Detroit suburb of Novi. Police managed to track the stolen vehicle’s location using the onboard OnStar system.
Law enforcement spotted the stolen 2021 C8 Corvette Stingray around 10:30 a.m. between Gratiot Avenue and Outer Drive, at which time the vehicle fled, initiating a high-speed chase with police.
The pursuit ended on Chrysler Driver between Canfield Street and Warren Avenue after the 2021 C8 Corvette Stingray crashed, sideswiping a van and colliding with several parked vehicles. Following the wreck, two individuals fled on foot, but were shortly apprehended by police.
Per photos published by Click On Detroit, the stolen 2021 C8 Corvette Stingray looks totaled, broken into several pieces on the road. Finished in Black, the mid-engine sports car is missing a good portion of the front passenger-side fender, suspension, and wheels. The rear bumper looks as though it was torn off in the collision, while the airbags are deployed. Several of the vehicles on the street appear to be damaged as well.
The MSP Metro Detroit police published dash cam and body cam footage of the incident on social media. The footage opens with a dash cam view of a police cruiser approaching the wrecked C8 Corvette Stingray. Pieces of the sports car block the road, while smoke and steam can be seen drifting up from the torn body pieces. The video continues with a police cruiser cutting through an apartment complex in pursuit of a suspect.
Below is a twitter amount of dash cam and body cam video. Both videos were stopped before showing the face of the suspects, as they have not been charged with a crime. pic.twitter.com/eGyYH7QXBV
— MSP Metro Detroit (@mspmetrodet) July 15, 2021
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Why didn’t Onstar just disable the vehicle?
That was my first thought as well. Sucks for the owner, being a ’21 they most likely waited a long time to receive it, not to mention a replacement is going to be hard to come by.
Software glitch…a patch will be issued when they have the parts!
This is an everyday occurrence in Detroit.
Tik Toc moves.
How in the hell can you steal a brand new Corvette from a dealership did they break into the car and do it the old-fashioned way Hotwire it. I thought there was supposed to be multiple anti-theft devices on these new cars
You give to much credit to those nitwits, probably more simple than that most likely they saw the key left in the car or out in the open and jump on it with the spur of the moment.
They probably worked there
Agreed, this wasn’t hard to do, no “hot wire” is going to start this new C8…obviously the Key Fob was attained somehow, and the rest as they say is history! Obviously these two mental midgets had no driving skills, were not able to control this new Corvette, and the end result was a real bummer. These new C8’s are hard to get anyway, and so now, one less to have running around Detroit.
As is normal operating procedure, there will be an investigation as to just how this whole mess happened, was this an “inside job” or just the right set of circumstances happening in favor of these perps. Hopefully this wasn’t an inside job because then this opens up a whole new can of worms, a third (or more) person involved and that has to be tracked down.
Kudo’s to the Detroit Police, they did their job, they caught the bad guys, sadly another C8 has been totaled…seems that if they are not crashing into pools in Southern California, their crashing into parked cars in Michigan!
As a Corvette owner, I cringe when ever I see Corvettes being totaled at the hands of idiots, and whether the car has been stolen by thieves or driven in a dangerous manner by the owner, the end results are always the same…another totaled car.
Just a thought here…maybe these two POS’s should be required to “pay restitution” by working off the cost of their stupidity, it may take years (chances are they don’t have a 9-5 regular job) to reimburse everyone involved (I can see a whole lot of money wasted here in this mess) and I don’t care how long it takes, these two bums ain’t getting out of this for free…once out of jail (if they even go to jail) they should be given just so much time to pay everyone back plus interest, and if they can’t or won’t do that, then it’s back to jail because they’ll be another worthless drain on society and never amount to anything worthwhile, probably maintaining a “life of crime” stealing vehicles. Seriously, who needs problems like this!
lol why would they have to pay anyone interest? Where does that happen at
My question is isn’t the pursuing police officer in the car taking big chance of hitting a person or children that could be playing outside at the playground their. But on the other hand this video almost looks fake because as the police car comes around the corner of the building the suspect is sitting on the ground and jumps up and just stops all of suddenly and is wearing ski mask pulled down over his face and wearing what looks like work gloves were if I was going to steal a car i would be wearing latex gloves.
They cut the images short cuz why? Does anyone want to play a game? want to hurt the narrative!! Why would they not show the perps? Oh, they were maintenance techs for GM like the ones in Cali who went over 100 mph, nothing to see here, carry on.
It says the video was cut short because they weren’t charged? I’m thinking that would be pretty straight forward? Somethings not right.