AVON - Police are waiting to see and talk with the injured owner of a car that crashed and the driver bailed out into the Sandy River after a high speed chase Monday night.

Franklin County sheriff's Lt. Niles Yeaton said Keith Kynock, 27, of Cotuit, Mass., the registered owner of the red Audi, went to a Farmington hospital Tuesday with possible broken bones and a punctured lung. Deputies will be interviewing him in the future, he said.

Deputy Ken Charles got a good look at the man after he bailed out of the car off Route 4, Yeaton said, and saw him tumble down a steep banking, land in the river and swim to the other side.

The chase started in Jay when officer Mike Mejia spotted the car traveling at a high rate of speed on Route 133, Jay police Chief Larry White Sr. said, and began following intoWilton and Farmington.

Farmington police saw the car on Wilton Road and joined the pursuit, along with Franklin County Sheriff's Deputy David Rackliffe, Yeaton said. It turned onto Route 4 headed toward Strong, left onto Chandler Road and left back onto Route 4 into Avon where Deputy Ken Charles had laid out a spike mat to puncture the speeding car's tires, Yeaton said.

"We don't know if suspect vehicle struck the spikes," he said, but a couple of other vehicles following it did.

The Audi swerved to the side of the road to avoid the mat, went into a ditch, struck a culvert and rolled over and back onto its wheels, Yeaton said.

The driver bailed out and went into the river, Yeaton said, with officers and a tracking dog owned by Deputy Christopher Chase unable to him, he said.

White said pending charges include eluding an officer, failure to stop, driving to endanger and criminal speed.