TAMPA - A 24-year-old woman and her friend are still in the hospital after a driver crashed his car into a crowd outside a busy bar in Ybor City last weekend.

Tampa police say, 22-year-old Silas Sampson, plowed into the crowd outside Bradley's on 7th Avenue early Saturday morning.

Riley Hancock, 24, was out with her two friends in Ybor that night, and was hurt in the mayhem.

The backstory:

According to a motion for pretrial detention, Florida Highway Patrol troopers first spotted a silver Toyota Camry driven by Sampson around 12:39 a.m. on November 8. He was speeding south on I-275. When troopers tried to stop the car near Nebraska Avenue, Sampson accelerated away from them, reaching speeds of 92 to 100 miles per hour as he turned onto Seventh Avenue.

Troopers ended the chase just 1

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