A wrong-way driver who crashed on Interstate 270 in Maryland Friday afternoon – backing up traffic for miles during rush hour – had been pursued by police and had kids with him, police say.

The chase began in Frederick County, where state police pursued a driver headed in the wrong direction on the shoulder of Route 15, and continued into Montgomery County after the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office picked up the pursuit.

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The suspect wound up driving southbound in the northbound lanes of I-270 until he crashed in the Clarksburg area.

According to police and dispatch accounts, children were in the car, and after the crash, the driver was holding a child in the road when he was tasered.

“We did contact our negotiators t

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