This video seems to confirm. At 0:00 you can see brake lights. After that no brake lights. He had the opportunity to back out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK7FNCEIfbQ
There was an SUV about 1 block behind him. This looked to me like a 1-way street.
Initially, I read that he ‘backed away’ for a ‘few blocks.’ The car was photographed by woods, abandoned.
Next thing I knew, the LEO helo crashed in the woods upside down.