Truck Driver Taken Into Custody on Suspicion of Felony Hit-and-Run in ... - KTLA
The train slammed into the truck near the intersection of East Fifth Street and South Rice Avenue ( map ) in Oxnard, an official with the Ventura County Fire Department said. Police responded a few minutes later and found the truck fully engulfed in flames and three rail cars overturned. Firefighters determined no one was inside the truck. The 54-year-old driver of the pickup truck was found nearly 2 miles away and was later taken into custody on suspicion of felony hit-and-run, police said at an early evening news conference. Twenty-eight of the 50 people on the train were taken to area hospitals, with four of them critically injured, authorities said at midday. “As you would expect from a train car that’s actually rolled over … the trauma from flying around the interior of the train is quite significant, so they were legitimate patients who were transported for trauma,” Investigator Joe Garces with the... A police officer on patrol found the driver of the truck walking about 1 1/2 miles south of the scene of the crash, Oxnard police Assistant Chief Jason Benites said. The driver was found by a police patrol officer to be “disoriented,” “unsettled,” and “very distressed,” Benites said at a news conference at about noon. Source: ktla.com
