Video caught the moment police in Torrance, California, rammed a carjacked vehicle, which went into a spin and slammed into a 66-year-old woman carrying grocery bags across a street Thursday, sending her flying into a curb.

What are the details?

The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department told Torrance police around 12:50 p.m. that deputies were chasing a carjacking suspect who had stolen several cars, according to a City of Torrance news release, and that the suspect had entered Torrance. Torrance is about a half-hour southwest of Los Angeles.

Torrance police learned a minute later that the suspect entered a parking structure at the Del Amo Fashion Center — and around 12:55 p.m., a woman reported a carjacking near the area where the pursuit suspect was last seen.

Police around that time said they spotted a male suspect driving the carjacked vehicle — a silver Prius — as it left the Del Amo Fashion Center, and police said they began chasing the driver.

Video shows the fleeing driver speeding on the wrong side of the street and going through stoplights before hopping a curb and knocking down a pole, KNBC-TV reported.

Police said a Torrance officer struck the vehicle near Vermont Avenue and Sepulveda Boulevard, and the vehicle in turn struck a pedestrian. Video shows the pedestrian flying backward into a curb after she was struck.

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