It’s understood the officers tried to stop the suspect after noticing he was driving recklessly along oncoming traffic.
Thousands of workers affiliated to Nupsaw threatened to shut down Tshwane on Wednesday.
Unlike Wednesday’s protest, Thursday was not marred by looting, violence and the burning down of foreign-owned shops.
Some foreign-owned shops and other properties have also been looted and set alight.
This development comes on the back of Tuesday's shooting in which a taxi driver was killed.
A taxi driver was killed after an alleged altercation broke out between taxi operators and a group of people who were being accused of dealing in drugs on Tuesday.
Workers affiliated to the South African Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) again took to the streets on Tuesday, blocking roads with vehicles and garbage.
The TMPD said a driver of a Toyota Tazz crashed into a group of cyclists along the R55 in Olievenhoutbosch on Friday leaving one dead and two injured.
Protesters are barricading the entrances leading to Soshanguve, Mabopane, Hammanskraal and Pretoria west reportedly as part of the movement Save Tshwane Total Shutdown.
The vehicle which was stolen in Centurion last month was discovered at a house in Pretoria West on Monday.
It is understood that a Putco bus collided with an SBV security van on Monday resulting in a more than five-hour closure of the road.
Officers fired rubber bullets at a group that had occupied land in Soshanguve on Monday.
The department's land invasion unit has demolished almost 300 illegal structures in Mamelodi and Soshanguve since last week.
Several streets in Mabopane, Winterveldt and Ga-Rankuwa have been barricaded with burning tyres.
The TMPD’s cable theft unit arrested two suspects and seized stolen copper cables worth an estimated R500,000 on Tuesday.
The Tshwane Metro Police Department says 27-year-old constable Ipeleng Llale was found dead in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Taxi operators from marched to Tshwane Mayor Solly Msimanga's offices on Wednesday to hand over a memorandum.
The City of Tshwane said metro police officers will not be replacing contracted security guards in the capital but will only be filling in while a new tender is finalised.
