LAKEWOOD, Colo. -- Molholm Elementary likely should have been on lockdown. That's what police, school and city leaders have concluded about Wednesday's high speed pursuit that seriously injured a school tutor.

Officials held a private, impromptu meeting at the school Friday morning. Those officials said the communication between Denver police and Lakewood police was nearly perfect, but both department's failed to communicate with the school.

As a result, a school tutor remains hospitalized with a broken pelvis, and officials are now questioning everything about high-speed pursuits in the city.

Police officers, along with school and city leaders emerged from Molholm Elementary just after 10 a.m. Friday. Their discussions inside the school centered on a few key questions: What led to Wednesday's crash and what needs to be done to prevent something like it in the future?

"The communication between the two departments worked very well because we have a channel that we switched to prior to the accident occuring. That enabled officers to talk car to car rather than having to relay information through dispatch," said Mary Beth Klee, division chief of patrol with the Denver Police Department.

Despite that communication success, it was a communication breakdown with the school that ultimately failed 52-year-old tutor Edith Mack.

She was just leaving the school when her car was broadsided by an undercover officer in an unmarked pickup truck just one block away from Molhom Elementary.

The officer ran a stop sign while chasing an armed robbery suspect. The pursuit ran through the school's zone but no one notified the school of the rapidly approaching danger.

"Obviously, we're very grateful she is recovering. Our sympathies go out to her. I spoke to the officer involved the next morning and he was very devastated and he cares deeply that this happened to her," said Klee.

In the future, officials said schools will be locked down if a pursuit comes within several miles. The officier had no lights and no siren, a violation of the DPD's chase policy.

"Denver police has a very tight police pursuit policy and that's why you don't see the happen very often," said Klee.

Mack is still listed as being in fair condition at St. Anthony Central Hospital.

Results of the accident investigation will likely go to the Jefferson County District Attorney's Office next week.

The DPD is also conducting an administrative review of the pursuit. Denver's pursuit policy is 15 pages long. You can view the entire pursuit policy by going to DPD's web site.