Kia Boys end up stacking three cars on top of each other causing a fiery wreck after wild Milwaukee chase concludes with dramatic crash

Four suspects are still at large in Milwaukee after striking a bicyclist and a car at an intersection before smashing into two parked vehicles and causing a massive fire.

At 11.15am Thursday, campus police from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee were notified of an attempted car theft in the parking lot of the university's nursing school.

Officers encountered the suspects driving a separate stolen Kia and began a high-speed chase.

Amid their frenzied escape, the suspects ran into a cyclist on East Oakland Avenue and continued driving.

Police were tending to the victim, who suffered minor injuries, when the stolen car slammed into two parked vehicles near North Cramer Street and East Linnwood Avenue.

Four suspects in a stolen Kia caused an enormous blaze south of the University of Milwaukee-Wisconsin Thursday

The suspects struck a cyclist and plowed into another driver before hitting two parked cars on the side of the road and sparking a fire

The four thieves, all clad in black, took off down the sidewalk. They remain at large

Moments before, the Kia peeled through an intersection, smashing into the front end of a dark-colored sedan in a harrowing moment caught on surveillance video.

The sedan went skidding several feet as its bumper was torn clean off. The white Kia then went skidding into two cars parked alongside the road and was forced to a halt as the other vehicles stacked on top of it.

The four suspects threw open the doors and fleeing down the sidewalk. All four wore black clothing.

Police say the driver who was hit in the intersection did not sustain any injuries.

Moments later, the Kia was ablaze with flames spilling out of the doors left ajar by the thieves.

Alyssa Marceau, a sophomore at UWM, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that she heard a loud noise outside her home on Cramer Street.

'I was just lying on the couch, and at first I heard a huge crash,' she said. 'I thought maybe it was construction, and I felt the need to go check it out because it was louder than normal.'

The stolen car ignited shortly after she walked onto her porch to investigate.

Moments after the collision that left two cars stacked on top of the stolen vehicle, the white Kia caught fire

The driver earlier plowed into a sedan as it crossed an intersection, sending the car skidding several feet

The car was left mangled, but the driver was unharmed. The cyclist sustained only minor injuries

Milwaukee saw 10,500 car thefts in 2021 following a viral TikTok trend, with easily-stolen Kias and Hyundais constituting nearly 70 percent of stolen vehicles

The Milwaukee Fire Department arrived around 10 minutes later. They snuffed out the blaze and cleared the scene just before 12.50pm.

All four suspects are still on the run, according to UWM Police.

Milwaukee saw around 3,500 vehicles stolen in 2019, but only 6 percent were Kias and Hyundais. By 2021, that number surged to 10,500, with Kias and Hyundais constituting nearly 70 percent.

The increase in thefts was due in part to a viral TikTok trend that instructed youths on how to start the cars using just a screwdriver and a USB cable.

A pair of masked individuals called the 'Kia Boyz,' a nickname now given to those who participate in this illegal viral trend, showed how to hotwire a Kia by opening the steering column with a screwdriver and sticking the USB into the ignition cylinder.

Kia and Hyundai models manufactured between 2011 and 2021 are missing engine-immobilizer systems, making them vulnerable to attacks.

A class-action lawsuit filed in Iowa in August of last year said the cars were 'easy to steal, unsafe, and worth less than they should be, if they did not have the defect.'

Kia introduced anti-theft software in February and has been providing it to drivers who meet the criteria for free installation.

In October, the company hosted an in-person event at Mayfair Mall to combat the spate of thefts in Milwaukee.

The upgrade includes a longer-sounding alarm and an adjustment to the ignition that makes the vehicles harder to steal, according to the company.