MILWAUKEE - A vehicle being pursued by police sped through an intersection and hit a car broadside, killing the man driving the auto in a crash caught on videotape taken from a television station's news helicopter.

The chase started in Saukville, went through several other communities and reached speeds up to 110 mph at some points before the crash and arrest of the 24-year-old Random Lake woman driving a sports utility vehicle, authorities said. The vehicle had gone through "stop sticks," deflating the right front tire but continued anyway until the collision.

Saukville Police Chief William Meloy said the incident began shortly before 10 a.m. Wednesday at Grafton State Bank in his community.

The woman tried to cash a $350 check from a church at the bank's drive-through area, said Patricia Liedtke, a bank vice president.

A teller was told to contact police when checking if the check was good, and asked the woman to go in the bank and give a thumb print, Liedtke said.

Instead, the woman fled, leading law enforcement officers from several agencies on a chase that covered parts of Highways 33, 60, Cedarburg downtown streets and Interstate 43, authorities said. Officers lost the woman several times during the chase.

In Cedarburg, "the suspect drove in such a manner that the officer couldn't maintain contact," said Cedarburg Police Chief Tom Frank. "He was quite a ways behind her at that point."

The chase ended when she ran a red light and struck the car broadside after getting off I-43 in Milwaukee County, authorities said.

WTMJ-TV of Milwaukee showed the tape of the chase and crash on its news programs later Wednesday.

The Milwaukee County Sheriff's Department identified the victim as Benjamin Fagan, 80, of Whitefish Bay.

Sheriff's officials said the woman driving the SUV was taken to Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and once released would be taken to jail, pending formal charges in the chase.

She has pending charges in check forgeries in Sheboygan and Washington counties, involving amounts totaling about $8,600, court records showed.

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke Jr. said it was legitimate to ask whether law enforcement authorities should pursue a chase over a stolen check.

"It's a legitimate question," he said. "These things are highly dangerous. In hindsight I would say, no."

The entire matter will be reviewed by the district attorney's office, Clarke said.

But he also noted that the woman had been traveling at speeds in excess of 100 mph on the freeway and around traffic.

"This thing was happening rapidly," he said. "We didn't start the pursuit. She did."