Authorities are still looking for suspects who struck several vehicles while leading police on a pursuit through Robbinsdale and into Minneapolis during the afternoon rush hour on Wednesday.

About 5 p.m., Robbinsdale officers attempted to stop a GMC 1500 pickup truck, believed to have been stolen, in the vicinity of County Road 81 and Abbott Avenue N. The vehicle "made intentional contact with civilian vehicles and rammed multiple police cars" as it fled southbound, said Capt. John Elder of Robbinsdale police.

That was just the beginning of the disturbance. Officers followed the GMC through Minneapolis and onto I-94, where the driver weaved through stopped rush-hour traffic. The suspect vehicle went westbound to the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, where motorist Jessi Sharpe first noticed that something was up.

She heard sirens in the eastbound lanes as she sat motionless in westbound traffic between the Mississippi River and the 7th Street exit. Then she heard them again coming up behind her.

The suspect driver side-swiped and made "slow-speed" contact with at least eight vehicles while trying to evade police, Elder said. Sharpe could not get out of the way and was hit in the back bumper, she said.

"At first I thought the driver behind me didn't have enough room, but then I realized that car was hitting everyone around us," she said in an interview Thursday. "It was like they didn't know how to drive."

The incident spooked Sharpe, of Minneapolis, who said, "it was incredibly scary. I don't want to drive for a while."

Nobody involved in the fender-benders was hurt, Elder said. As for Sharpe, she said she would have to get her whole bumper repaired. Others sustained a bit more damage to their vehicles, she said.

Robbinsdale police, with help from the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office and the State Patrol, tracked the pickup until it got to the area of 6th Street and Cedar Avenue. That is where law enforcement found the truck abandoned and the suspects gone.

Elder confirmed police obtained a search warrant for the vehicle based on evidence found at the scene. He did not elaborate.

Preliminary information indicated the vehicle police were pursuing had been involved in violent crimes earlier in the week, Elder said.