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 DENVER -- Officers pursued a stolen tractor towing an attachment through central Denver Friday night. The chase is believed to have began near City Park and ended in Lower Downtown. 
 
 The tractor was stolen from a Denver Water facility at 1600 West 12th Avenue in the Lincoln Park neighborhood. 
 
 We are working with @DenverPolice regarding their investigation into the stolen tractor Friday night. Any additional questions regarding this investigation should be directed to them at this time. Thank you. — Denver Water (@DenverWater) July 21, 2018 
 
 Videos show a number of Denver Police Department vehicles pursuing the tractor, which could be seen driving on busy city streets and sidewalks. One clip shows the tractor crossing Park Avenue. 
 
 The pursuit ended near 15th and Market Streets in LoDo. The Denver Police Department said two of its officers were taken to the hospital with injuries. By Saturday morning, both had been treated and released. 
 
 One witness said the pursuit ended when a police cruiser hit the tractor head-on. The impact was strong enough to make the police vehicle's airbags deploy. The witness reported that immediately after, the officer who had been driving the wrecked cruiser used a Taser to subdue the tractor driver. 
 
 Another witness reported the male suspect was apprehended and placed in an ambulance. 
 
 "It could've definitely been a lot worse, for sure," he said. 
 
 The second witness also described the actions of the officer who rammed their vehicle into the tractor, ending the pursuit. 
 
 "Him doing that and going for it -- that takes a lot of dedication," he said. 
 
 Police said officers did not fire their guns. 
 
 Police have not released the suspect's identity as the investigation is ongoing. 
 
 FOX31 and Channel 2 have reached out to the DPD for details regarding the circumstances of the chase. 
 
 This story will be updated as authorities make more information available. 
 
 For alerts on the latest breaking news, download our app for iPhone and Android. ||||| One person was killed and at least seven were injured when a runaway tractor-trailer careening down East Hill crashed into Simeon’s restaurant Friday afternoon in downtown Ithaca. By 7:45 a.m. Saturday, the truck was removed from the building and East State Street was reopened. North Aurora Street was closed and fenced off from the Commons to The Mahogany Grill. Restaurants on the east side of Aurora Street were not affected. The driver of the truck sustained superficial injuries and was being questioned at Ithaca police headquarters, police said Friday. The cause of the crash and whether speed was a factor were being investigated. Lindsey Pou, 26, a pastry chef at nearby Madeline’s Restaurant, said she was sitting outside on The Commons when she saw the tractor-trailer barreling down East State Street and smash into the building. She said the driver did not sound the horn, and she did not hear any screeching brakes. There were a number of diners sitting in the restaurant, and more Simeon’s employees were arriving for the evening shift when the accident occurred, she said. A group of construction workers renovating The Commons were standing in the truck’s path and had to leap out of the way to avoid being hit, according to Pou. “Everyone screamed. A lot of people ran to try and help, to see what they could do,” she said. “The response time for the police was really quick, which was awesome. They took hold of the situation.” Police evacuated the 100 block of North Aurora Street and the 200 block of East State-MLK Street, according to Ithaca Police Department Public Information Officer Jamie Williamson. A small fire started in the bar area of Simeon’s immediately after the collision but was extinguished. The city engineer’s office as well as an outside engineering firm were evaluating the building. After the truck collided with the restaurant, the building’s front corner collapsed, leaving a gaping hole in the apartments above Simeon’s. Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick said the occupants of the apartments were not home at the time of the collision. 
 
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 Myrick advised people to avoid the east end of The Commons for the time being. “There is some risk of the building collapsing,” he said. “We did bring in a crane. We have our building inspectors on the scene. They are going to tell us what we need to do to the building to keep it stable. We want to save the building if we can. It’s beautiful land, it’s historic, but safety is our number one priority right now. If we feel that the building is going to collapse, we will take it down ourselves.” Late Friday evening, a crane tore a section off the four-story building’s roof. Tow trucks were on the scene to remove the car carrier. Williamson said four injured people had been transported to Cayuga Medical Center with an additional person possibly arriving on their own. A hospital spokesperson said seven injured people had been admitted. None of the injuries was considered life-threatening, they said. The names of the person killed and of the driver were not immediately released. Previous accidents Pou noted that the particular location has a history of such accidents. In September 2010, a dump truck headed down the State-Martin Luther King Street hill and hit the Community School of Music and Art building at Seneca Way. Only the driver was hurt. Authorities said he apparently lost control of the gravel-laden truck, which then rolled over and hit parked cars, then the building. The driver was pinned but extricated within 15 minutes. The building was evacuated and closed until damages were repaired and it was confirmed safe. In 2008, police suspected brake failure when a northbound car headed down South Hill on Aurora Street and hit a parked delivery truck in the 100 block of the street. The driver and four children riding with her were hospitalized. “I don’t want to say this frequently happens, but this isn’t the first time we’ve had a horrible accident of this magnitude here,” Pou said. Myrick said tractor-trailers are allowed on East State-Martin Luther King Jr. Street, given that it is a state route, and he noted that bollards are installed on The Commons to avoid such accidents, although they were not enough to withstand a large tractor-trailer towing two decks of cars.
– Imagine looking outside and seeing over a dozen cop cars chasing ... a tractor. That was the scene in Denver last night when a stolen tractor towing an attachment smashed into cars and buildings as it plowed through downtown, the Huffington Post reports. Addie Hooper, 20, was visiting from Texas with family when she looked out a restaurant window onto Market Street and saw a police SUV crash into the tractor: "We were just like, 'Woah, that's crazy!" Hooper tells the Denver Post. Police vehicles rushed the scene and officers jumped out with guns drawn. "We thought they were going to shoot him," she adds. Instead, officers Tased the driver and made sure he was carted off by ambulance. Two officers sustained non-life-threatening injuries, and no reports have emerged of injured pedestrians. "It could've definitely been a lot worse," a witness tells KDVR. No more details have emerged, but police say the slow-speed chase began around City Park and concluded downtown, where officers rammed the tractor to protect pedestrians. Among Twitter videos, this one seems to capture it best. (Read about the easiest suspect chase ever.)