A woman led dozens of cops on a high-speed chase along a Los Angeles freeway Friday that caused a multi-car wrong-way crash — leaving her face covered in blood, according to authorities.
Stunning photos show the unidentified driver handcuffed with blood smeared across her cheeks and teeth in an image that looks plucked from a horror film.
Cops first tried to pull over the motorist in Venice at 4:22 a.m. after she backed a van into a patrol car — but she allegedly hit the gas instead, the Los Angeles Police Department said.
She then drove erratically through the upscale areas of Santa Monica and Brentwood before speeding north onto the 405 freeway, as cops tried to stop her ahead of morning rush hour, police told FOX 11.
The chase nearly became deadly when she made a sudden U-turn then smashed into a car head-on at full speed before hitting a semi-trailer and sideswiping a third vehicle, the station reported.
After the collision, the speed demon allegedly got out of the van and climbed onto the semi-trailer’s cab, footage obtained by the station shows.
She was then arrested.
A man in a silver sedan was hit by the crazed driver head-on and was trapped in his car until officers broke his window and rescued him, the station reported.
A second crash victim, David Hill, said the driver’s side of the suspect’s vehicle was pinned against his black Volkswagen Golf GTI.
“When that van came to a stop, I wasn’t sure who was inside, what they were going to do, if they were going to come out and try to steal my car,” Hill said.
“So, I immediately got out of my car and came to the shoulder and just waited while police apprehended that suspect.”
Crash victims appear to have been triaged at the scene and didn’t need hospitalization.
The suspect was taken into custody then placed into an ambulance, according to video footage from the scene.
She appeared to have head injuries.
