HADLEY — A chase involving several motorcycles and a car that refused to stop for Northampton police on Sunday night ended in Hadley with the arrest of one man.
Northampton police plan to file a criminal complaint against a 24-year-old Springfield man on a list of charges including driving recklessly, failure to stop, attaching the wrong motor vehicle plates, and driving an unregistered, uninsured vehicle with a suspended license.
Hadley police did not immediately respond to a request seeking the identity of the driver and the charges he faces in that town, and Northampton police declined to identify him before the complaint is filed.
The chase, which never reached high speeds, started at the roundabout outside Look Park in Northampton around 6:30 p.m., according to Northampton police.
A motorcycle entered the roadway and stopped, blocking traffic so that several other motorcycles and a car could get through the roundabout together. A police officer saw the offending motorcycle and tried to pull it over, but the operator would not comply and made gestures telling the officer to leave.
The officer allegedly noticed that the motorcycle had no license plate and that the car’s license plate did not match the vehicle.
As the chase moved down Bridge and then Damon roads to Industrial Drive, and eventually over the Coolidge Bridge, the motorcycle actively prevented the officer from pulling over the car by swerving in the road, according to Northampton police.
Northampton officers broke off the chase when the vehicles started going over the Coolidge Bridge, and Hadley officers managed to stop the car and arrest the driver. The motorcycles managed to escape.
Additional details were not immediately available.