Walnut Creek Crash/Fight Leaves Damaged Cars, Debris Scattered Across North Main Street Thursday
A car and driver witnesses described as “really moving” turned the intersection of N. Main Street and Parkside in Walnut Creek into a demolition derby and UFC cage fight Thursday but – miraculously – resulted in no major injuries.
The incident was first reported by Flashers and others in the area at 11:54 a.m. when a red car with Arizona plates traveling south on N. Main Street veered out of control, careened through the intersection, struck at least two other vehicles before launching off a landscaping berm and pancaking in the middle of a Chevron gas station undergoing renovation at 2329 N. Main Street.
Two people – one of them the driver of the involved car – were injured but apparently not so severely that the driver of the offending car wasn’t able to escape from paramedics with protective neck collar in place and engage police in a contentious struggle in the middle of the crash scene.
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The unidentified driver was eventually restrained by several officers and handcuffed. What charges, if any, await him remain unknown for now. We believe he was taken to a nearby hospital for precautionary examination.
“I don’t know how fast he was going for sure but he was definitely moving,” reader Michael Hough told News24/680. “He glanced off a couple of cars on N. Main and set their airbags off before crashing into Chevron.”
Area businesses reported having captured events on their surveillance systems and offered video to police.
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Even the parking control officer getting in on the arrest. It takes a village.
Sorry I missed this one, I would have gotten involved.
Malibu 108RS
It was a messy one…
Who raises things like him? And what are we going to do about getting junk like him off the streets? People could have died because of this idiot.
He had to be going to cause that kind of damage.
I’ll take, “Interesting Toxicology Reports” for $1,000.
We missed this but passed through right after. Our arm chair accident reconstruction skills were no match for this one.
Hope the occupants of the blue SUV headed north on N. Main are okay; it looked really bad for them on the driver’s side.
Ha! He did come boiling out of the Big Red Bus collared and ready to scrap… it raised a few eyebrows. We think the other one was a hit and run we were called out on afterward.
Busy Day!