Seal Seashore police are looking for a hit-and-run driver who was concerned in a high-speed collision with one other automobile Saturday night time that left 5 individuals injured.
Police responded to the site visitors collision about 7:15 p.m. on the busy industrial intersection of Pacific Coast Freeway and Predominant Road, authorities mentioned.
An unidentified driver of a Mercedes 300D Class smashed into the aspect of one other automobile with 5 individuals inside, police mentioned. The suspect then deserted his automobile and fled on foot right into a residential neighborhood referred to as the Hill.
Police searched the world however failed to seek out the suspect, authorities mentioned.
The entire occupants within the different automobile — two unidentified ladies and three teenage women — sustained critical accidents and have been transported to hospitals, police mentioned. Two of them have since been discharged.
The opposite three sufferers — all 17-year-old women from Orange County — remained within the hospital as of Sunday morning however have been listed as steady.
Police mentioned the suspect — whom they described as a person aged 18 to twenty — stays at massive. It’s unknown if medicine or alcohol factored within the crash. However the suspect seems to have been rushing as he raced via the intersection.
“You may undoubtedly infer it was a excessive price of velocity,” Seal Seashore police Lt. Julia Clasby mentioned of the crash. Police launched a video that exhibits the suspect’s rushing automobile plow into the aspect of the opposite automobile, which had a inexperienced gentle and was shifting via the intersection on the time of the crash.
Earlier than the collision, Huntington Seashore Police obtained calls Saturday night of a reckless driver heading northbound on Pacific Coast Freeway.