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A police cruiser narrowly avoided hitting a group of children after it was T-boned while an officer chased a stolen car Sunday afternoon in Stowe Township. The officer was chasing the car down Dohrman Street when it collided with a van in the middle of the intersection with Broadway Avenue and spun out of control, barely missing four children standing on a corner. "I'm still shaken up because it was just -- you see that in the movies, not in real life, you know?" witness Candice Sabo said. Tenesha Gillespie said she had just started feeling comfortable letting her children, ages 9 and 11, walk three blocks to their neighborhood store. Surveillance video captured just how close they were to being hit. "The police officer, he was doing his job," Gillespie said. "But at the same time, that's a common place where people walk -- kids, elderly. That could have just turned out to be something that it really didn't have to be." “The video sends chills through your body,” said Stowe Township Commissioner Kelly Cropper-Hall. Cropper-Hall is on a committee that looks at policing procedures for the township. She, along with the police chief, says the officer was following all policies and procedures and had his lights and sirens on during the chase. “He was doing his job, so I believe that the policy, you always review everything after every incident, but I don't see it changing in the future,” Cropper-Hall said. Cropper-Hall said she’s glad no one was hurt, and she will meet with the police chief to at least discuss the policy despite the unlikeliness it will change. The officer was taken to Allegheny General Hospital as a precaution and has been released. The driver of the other vehicle was not injured. Police continue to look for the car that was involved in the chase. It's described as a white Toyota Corolla with Pennsylvania license plate JSD-1872.