A suspected stolen vehicle carrying eight individuals crashed into a ditch west of Hayden Wednesday afternoon following a pursuit involving multiple law enforcement jurisdictions that stretched from Delta County to Routt County.

Delta police said officers attempted to pull over the vehicle, a silver Dodge Durango, around 11 p.m. Tuesday night after it left a local gas station, according to a statement from the department.

After attempting to stop the vehicle at a nearby McDonalds, the Delta police said, “the driver then fled northbound on Highway 50 toward Grand Junction at extremely high speeds.”

All eight individuals, five of which are juveniles, were apprehended following the Wednesday afternoon wreck in Hayden, according to Moffat County Sheriff Chip McIntyre. A statement from the Moffat County Sheriff’s Office, the lead investigating agency for the incident, said the ongoing inquiry involves “agencies from Moffat County, Colorado State Patrol, Routt County, Mesa County and Delta County.”

The sheriff said Craig police officers spotted the vehicle Wednesday afternoon but were unable to perform a traffic stop before it continued east on U.S. Highway 40.

Hayden Police Chief Scott Scurlock described how information sharing led to his officers, along with Routt and Moffat County Sheriff’s deputies and Colorado State Patrol, being involved in stopping the vehicle just west of Hayden.

“We were setting up stop sticks at the west end of town, they missed the sticks the best that I can tell. I attempted to do a tactical vehicle intervention on them and they were trying to avoid it and intentionally drove down into a ditch, at which point they got stuck and then I think there were a total of eight people that came piling out of that Durango,” said Scurlock.

“Two, I believe, stayed in that vehicle, the other six ran, we caught all of the individuals involved,” he added.

The Hayden police chief said two of the juveniles who fled the accident scene, and one officer who chased them, suffered minor injuries to their hands after jumping a barbed wire fence in the area. Another suspect was transported to a local hospital due to back pain.

None of the injuries stemmed from “any use of force by police that would have caused injury,” added Scurlock.

McIntyre said the original charges for a least a “couple” of the apprehended suspects who are adults originated from the Grand Junction Police Department. “So those two will, obviously as adults, be booked out of Grand Junction and then we are working through the juveniles.”

Editor’s note: Every person accused of a crime is presumed to be innocent unless and until their guilt is established beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.