Thirteen people including ten French police officers were injured and several cars damaged on Saturday after a driver refused to stop at the request of police in Paris.

Axar.az reports, citing AFP, the car chase spanning several kilometers ended with the driver losing control of his car and smashing into a traffic light and three pursuing police vehicles hitting his vehicle.

During a police check at around 5:45 am (0445 GMT) in the 14th district in southern Paris, the driver refused to comply with police orders to stop, the police prefecture said.

Prosecutors said the driver had run a red light.

“Three police vehicles then set off in pursuit of the vehicle for several kilometers,” the public prosecutor’s office said.

Prosecutors said they suspected the driver of being intoxicated at the time of the chase.

The driver lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a traffic light, prosecutors said. “The three pursuing police vehicles then crashed into his vehicle,” added the Paris prosecutor’s office.

As a result of the accident in the 15th district, also in the south of the French capital, ten police officers received light injuries and were hospitalized, the prefecture said in a statement.

“The driver and two passengers were arrested and taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries,” the statement said.