TUMWATER, Wash. -- A driver who failed to yield led police on a chase Friday afternoon, ending in a crash that injured a Tumwater police officer.

As the officer pursued the driver through parking lots and then down Capitol Boulevard. When the officer reached Trosper Street he was passing cars on the left, believing traffic was stopping for him. When the light turned green a woman turned left in front of the officer, causing the crash, police said.

The officer was transported to St. Peter’s Hospital in Olympia . The extent of the officer’s injuries is not known.

Police are searching for the driver involved, who was thought to have been driving a silver SUV.