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Crazy Range Rover driver smashes taxi, police open fire!

<B>NO INTENT OF STOPPING:</B> This Range Rover driver tried to evade the police, and in the process smashed into a taxi. <I>Image: YouTube</I>
<B>NO INTENT OF STOPPING:</B> This Range Rover driver tried to evade the police, and in the process smashed into a taxi. <I>Image: YouTube</I>

New York - A series of clips captured the bizarre moment a Range Rover driver attempted to evade New York city police.

The incident occurred in the northern Manhattan neighborhood of Inwood.

According to The Drive.com, authorities chased the Range Rover after the driver made illegal right turn and failed to pull over for a traffic stop. 

Crash and burn

The driver attempted to flee from the police and in the process slammed into a taxi. Incredibly, after the first collision, the driver is scene reversing some distance away and ramming his/her way past the taxi.

The taxi driver can be seen exiting his cab and is caught between his taxi and a parked car in the process.

WATCH: Angry driver uses Range Rover as battering ram

In the background police can be heard screaming and ordering the driver to stop. Ultimately the police opened fire on the SUV.

See the confrontation in the videos below:


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