Highway 24 Driver Arrested After Crashing Into Lafayette BART Parking Lot Wednesday

A driver was in police custody after taking his wife and child on a wild ride off westbound Highway 24 Wednesday night, crashing through a tree and on into the parking lot at Lafayette BART – briefly fleeing on foot before he was located, bruised and bleeding, and arrested.

News24/680 Flash subscribers described the crash, one motorist behind the family’s Infiniti QX30 when it left the freeway and “powdered” a tree apparently loaded with pollen, sending up a yellowish cloud another Flasher said looked like “mustard gas” before coming to rest in the lot after clipping a parked car.

Police interview the driver of a car that crashed into the BART parking lot Wednesday night. News24/680 Photo

Witnesses reported a man and a woman carrying a child running from the crash scene in the direction of the Deer Hill Crosses shortly after motorists reported the incident at 9:51p.m. The woman and child were quickly located but the male remained at large for some time before he was located on BART property, bleeding from unspecified injuries.

Police descended on the area, sent up a drone in an attempt to locate the car’s occupants, and eventually located the trio, arresting the man on unspecified charges.

Officers talk with a woman whose car was struck by the Infiniti as it tore through the BART lot. News24/680 Photo