MURRAY — A police pursuit that began in Taylorsville ended in a crash with critical injuries in Murray Thursday evening, police said.

Unified police were watching a car in the parking lot of the Taylorsville Walmart on Redwood Road when the car fled, according to Murray police. Officers followed the car into Murray.

The car ran a red light at the intersection of Winchester Street and State Street, hitting another car with an adult and young child inside, police said.

A man in the fleeing car was taken to the hospital in critical condition. A woman in the fleeing car, 27-year-old Makayla Lopshire of Salt Lake City, was arrested on felony warrants, according to Unified police.

Neither the adult nor the child in the other car were injured.

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State Street at Winchester Street was closed in both directions just before 7 p.m., the Utah Department of Transportation said.

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