A suspected drunk driver final week slammed into spectators ready to look at a Christmas parade in downtown Bakersfield, injuring three folks, police stated.
On Thursday night, about half an hour earlier than the beginning of the annual Bakersfield Christmas Parade, a person in a white pickup truck drove backward via an alleyway close to the parade route at a excessive fee of velocity, coming to a cease subsequent to a metropolis hearth station on twenty first Road, the Bakersfield Police Division stated in an announcement.
The Ford F-150 hit three male parade spectators, ages 21, 42 and 77. Authorities haven’t launched their names.
Bakersfield firefighters who had been close by “instantly rendered medical support” to the boys, who had been taken to an area hospital and had been in secure situation, authorities stated.
The motive force, Alan Sales space, 72, of Bakersfield, was arrested on suspicion of driving inebriated, police stated.
Officer Francisco Esguerra, a Bakersfield police watch commander, informed the Occasions on Saturday night time that Sales space was at a hospital being handled for accidents associated to the crash and had not but been booked into jail.
Sales space couldn’t be reached for remark.
Cops who had been making ready for the parade close by heard the truck speed up earlier than the collision, authorities stated.
The collision additionally broken a meals truck, Poppi’s Pastrami & Extra.
“He pushed my entire truck. He pushed it like 8 [feet],” Misti Cole, the meals truck proprietor, informed KBAK Fox58.
Photographs on the Poppi’s Pastrami & Extra Fb web page present the Dodge Ram pickup truck that was hauling the meals trailer with a smashed entrance finish.
Cole informed the information station that her youngsters had been within the meals trailer on the time of the crash and that different youngsters had been sitting in chairs close by to look at the parade.
“Vehicles could be changed. These individuals who obtained hit, they’ll’t get replaced,” Cole informed KBAK.
Poppi’s Pastrami, she stated, is her household’s important supply of earnings.
The parade was rerouted and briefly delayed.