PITTSBURGH — Homicide detectives and others have been at the scene of a Pittsburgh police chase that ended when a woman driving a car reported stolen crashed into a garbage truck and was thrown from the vehicle.

Police Cmdr. Scott Schubert isn’t identifying the suspect in the early morning chase today, but he says she’s been critically injured and is not expected to survive.

Police began following the vehicle when it pulled onto Liberty Avenue in the city’s Lawrenceville section without headlights. The woman refused to pull over the car, which was reported stolen earlier from McCandless Township.