In unrelated incidents, two Escort Service vans were involved in accidents last Friday night, University Police officials said. In addition, a University police car was involved in a high-speed chase of a stolen car through the campus' streets last week. In the first Escort van accident, University Police Lieutenant Susan Holmes said the van struck a car on the 3900 block of Spruce Street at 10:06 p.m. Friday night. There was no damage to either vehicle, she said. Holmes said that later that evening, at 2:38 a.m., another Escort van struck a vehicle in the 3300 block of Spruce Street. No one was injured in either of the accidents, Holmes said. According to University Police Sergeant Michael Fink, the high-speed car chase began when University Police were called to investigate a disturbance by three men at Stouffer Triangle at 1:50 a.m. Wednesday night. Fink said that when the police arrived at the scene, the men fled in a black Suzuki jeep. The police chased the car westward and the jeep flipped over on 42nd and Pine, Fink said. Fink said that the jeep was reported stolen from Drexel Hill on January 25th. The driver of the jeep, 27-year-old David Patrick Doyle of Springfield, Pennsylvania, was charged with one count of possession of stolen property and one count of drunk and reckless driving, Fink said.
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