OAKLAND TWP — The normally quiet Woodbine Oaks mobile home park — in eyeshot of an elementary school — resembled a scene from a television police drama Saturday when a man suspected of shooting his girlfriend led police on a high-speed chase.

During the pursuit, in which speeds topped 100 mph, authorities said, the suspect nearly lost control of his car after traveling over a spike strip.

After hitting the strip, he managed to navigate the vehicle through a yard and down an embankment before coming to a near damage-free crash landing in the middle of the trailer park.

The man — believed to have a handgun — high tailed it on foot and soon police special operations officers armed with high-powered rifles and dressed in camouflage flooded the peaceful park setting.

Some of the of residents were warned to stay in their homes and keep the doors locked.

The drone of a police helicopter later filled the air and the barking of search dogs echoed through the woods.

“It’s really scary,” said one woman, a longtime resident there, too scared to give her name.

“Not something you expect to see here on a Saturday afternoon,” said Denny Newell, who lives on the upper end of the trailer park along Route 68.

Newell had a front-row seat of the chase that began about 11:45 a.m. when troopers first saw Robert Amend’s silver Hyundai Sonata on Route 68, a little west of Chicora.

Police in Pittsburgh were looking for the 49-year-old Amend of the city’s Sheraden section, who they believed had shot his estranged girlfriend earlier in the day.

Police assumed the suspect was still armed apparently with his girlfriend’s .380-caliber pistol — the same gun he used to shoot her, authorities said.

Using cell phone tracking technology, police learned Amend was well north of the crime scene.

“They found out that he was in our area,” said state police Lt. Chris Yanoff.

Troopers did not have to wait long before they spotted the wanted man’s car on Route 68 headed west out of Chicora. Further up the road, other patrol officers deployed a long and spiny spike strip to disable his suspect.

Amend’s car hit the tire shredder, Yanoff said.

Newell was working on his front porch and heard police sirens. He also heard what he believed was the car traveling over the spike strip.

“But at first I thought someone hit a dog,” he said.

Seconds later, he saw Amend’s four-door sedan pass his home.

“He was flying,” Newell said. “There was smoke or steam coming from his car.”

Maybe a half-minute later, two chase cars, emergency lights and sirens on, whizzed by Newell’s home.

By then Amend survived a daring maneuver that would paid off.

Amend’s car had veered off the north berm and onto a home’s short, narrow driveway where the suspect demonstrated his driving skill — or luck.

He managed to steer the car through a 6-foot gap between a picnic table to the left and a refrigerator to the right of the driveway.

Just feet from the end of the driveway is a storage shed. Instead of slamming head-on in the shed, Amend made a nearly 90-degree left turn, plunging the car down a steep embankment toward the center of the trailer park.

Somehow, he managed to guide the vehicle through one narrow opening between two chestnut trees and a second narrow opening between two oak trees.

Monty Edgar, who owns the Woodbine Oaks mobile home park, which includes 40 trailers, found himself in the action that afternoon. He was with his mechanic working on his pickup truck.

“I heard the ruckus and racket and all kinds of noise,” Edgar said. “I glanced up and saw this car blasting up the hill.”

The suspect apparently tried to drive the vehicle up the opposite side of the embankment but couldn’t make it. He got out of the disabled car.

“I yelled at him, ‘What the heck are you doing running down through my yard?’” Edgar recalled.

Amend did not say anything but replied to Edgar by waving him off.

“He went straight up the hill,” Edgar said. “He wasn’t running. It was more like a fast walk.”

A neighbor also spotted the suspect, who was wearing blue jean shorts and a light blue shirt.

“That tenant thought he lived there and was just out jogging,” Yanoff said.

That would be Amend’s last confirmed sighting — on a road in back of the park surrounded by acre after acre of thick, dense woods — for about 10 hours.

Once out of those woods at the tip of the park is Shearer Road. But there’s more woods, more than 100 acres worth, northwest of the park. Those woods eventually lead to Center Drive.

Edgar did not immediately call police. He assumed troopers had seen the suspect’s car go off the road. When he didn’t see any officers show up, he called at 12:20 p.m.

“I told them, ‘I think you guys are looking for someone,’ he said. ‘I have his car.’”

Moments later, troopers were scouring the trailer park. But by then, Amend had a head start of up to 30 minutes.

Pittsburgh police led the search operation with state police assisting. The Pittsburgh police SWAT team and the state police Special Emergency Response Team were a visible presence during Saturday’s search.

A state police helicopter hovered overhead for much of the operation. Below, officers monitored video feed of aerial surveillance taken by the copter’s camera system.

Pittsburgh police used its own high-tech assets, attempting to track Amend via cell-phone pinging.

But about 9:30 p.m., the search was called off.