California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Pike, 197 Cal.App.3d 732, 243 Cal.Rptr. 54 (Cal. App. 1988):
In the instant case, the evidence adduced at trial indicates that defendant operated his motorcycle in an unlawful and reckless manner on public streets for approximately 10 miles in an effort to evade law enforcement officers who, using emergency sirens and red lights, tried to apprehend him. Defendant's speed at times reached 100 miles per hour. As held in People v. Harris, supra, 52 Cal.App.3d at page 427, 125 Cal.Rptr. 40: "It was reasonably foreseeable that the officers would continue to chase him as he speeded recklessly and circuitously over public thoroughfares and failed to stop at boulevard stops, thus setting in motion circumstances creating peril to others on the public streets and a high probability that collisions, injuries and deaths would occur in the course of the chase."
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