Mounties are looking for a man they say was involved in three separate motor vehicle accidents and a carjacking Thursday morning along Westwood Street.
The incident began in a parking lot in the 3000-block of the Lougheed Highway at 10:35 a.m. when police received a call about an impaired driver.
When officers arrived, the suspect took off in a truck, hitting another vehicle on the way out of the area.
A short time later, he crashed into a Bel-Air taxi cab at the rail crossing on Westwood Street and Kingsway Avenue. At that point, the suspect jumped out of his truck and carjacked a second vehicle.
He sped off down Kingsway into Port Coquitlam, where it did not take long for him to hit a third car, before abandoning the vehicle and running away along the Coquitlam River.
"We have a good idea of the suspect," said Coquitlam RCMP Cpl. Michael McLaughlin, who described the man as a darker-skinned male with neck tattoos and a short haircut, wearing a Crooks and Castles hoodie, a gold chain and white shoes.
He added that nobody was seriously hurt in the series of incidents but said the woman involved in the carjacking sustained minor injuries.
"She was pretty shaken up," McLaughlin added.
By noon Thursday, the RCMP's Air 1 helicopter was still in the air and police dog handlers were at the scene.
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