(KAIR)--Details are released regarding a Sunday evening vehicle pursuit that ended in a rollover crash that left two injured, including a 17-month-old child.

According to a release from Atchison County Sheriff Jack Laurie, it began early Sunday evening, when the Atchison Police Department was notified that a vehicle had crashed into a wall in the 700 block of Atchison's S Street, with police told the vehicle had lost it's front bumper in the crash, before leaving the scene.

About 10 minutes later, Laurie says, a deputy spotted a vehicle matching the description, south of the city limits, on Sherman Road. Parked in the grass off the roadway, just north of 244th Road on the east side of Sherman Road, the deputy ultimately made contact with the driver, identified as 28-year-old Maria Papalas, of Atchison, who "immediately began rolling up the window and then fled the scene at a high rate of speed."

Seeing only the driver inside the vehicle during the brief encounter, the deputy followed south on Sherman Road, but lost sight, before noticing what Laurie calls "a cloud of dust on the west side of Sherman Road," which was caused, it was soon learned, after Papalas had crashed, running off the roadway, over a fence, and into trees.

The deputy found Papalas standing outside the crashed vehicle, reaching through the window to remove her as-yet unseen child from the backseat. The deputy attempted to take her into custody, but Papalas allegedly refused to cooperate, hitting and kicking the deputy, before he was able to take her into custody. He then began to attend to the injured child until Atchison County Rescue and EMS arrived on the scene, with the child transported to Children's Mercy Hospital, in Kansas City, with life-threatening injuries.

Papalas, who was transported to Stormont-Vail, in Topeka, for the treatment of minor injuries, was released from the hospital's care Monday, and then booked into the Atchison County Jail. She faces multiple charges, including reckless driving, felony fleeing and eluding, driving under the influence, aggravated battery, aggravated child endangerment, interference with law enforcement, and battery on a law enforcement officer.

The Kansas Highway Patrol, who assisted at the Sunday evening scene, is handing the investigation into the crash, at the request of the Atchison County Sheriff's Office.