During a high-speed chase in West Valley City earlier this year, Salt Lake City police detective Gordon Swift watched from a distance as the car they were chasing swerved suddenly across three lanes and hit a WVC police officer who was trying to lay spike strips in the road. âI thought I was watching an officer about to die,â Swift testified Friday during a preliminary hearing in 3rd District Court. Swift said the Chrysler 500 was heading straight towards Officer Jared Cardon, who jumped out of ... <img src="http://mngislctrib.112.2O7.net/b/ss/mngislctrib/1/H.17--NS/0?&pageName=RSS" height="1" width="1" border="0" alt=""/> <iframe src="http://www.sltrib.com/csp/mediapool/sites/sltrib/pages/garss.csp" height="1" width="1" > </frame>