Sacramento officials say that two women died when a man in a stolen SUV ran a red light and crashed into them. The police caught that man while he was trying to steal another car. Later, they found out that he had been drinking.
In a news release, the California Highway Patrol said that the man, who was 22 years old and from Sacramento, ran a red light going north at the intersection of French and Florin roads and hit two women going west on Florin. The crash caused the car the women were in to hit a white van that was nearby.
Mark Leavitt, a spokesman for the CHP in South Sacramento, said that the two women died at the scene. A 49-year-old woman from Sacramento was driving, and a 42-year-old woman from Sacramento was riding with her.
suspect is 22 years old and from Sacramento. They say he ran a red light going north at the intersection of French and Florin Rd. That’s when he hit the women in their car, which caused a secondary crash with a van. The unidentified women were 49 and 42 from Sacramento.
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Sgt. Amar Gandhi of the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office said that one of their deputies heard the crash and found the suspect trying to leave the scene. Gandhi says that the deputy caught him while he was trying to steal another car nearby.
Gandhi said that the sheriff’s office had heard about a purse theft before the crash. The suspect in the Florin Road crash had tried to steal a woman’s car keys at her home near French and Gerber roads in Sacramento, but she was able to fight him off.
Gandhi says that the man, who was driving the Toyota RAV4 when it crashed, then stole another car near Billfish Way. In a news release, CHP said the man stole the Toyota at 10 a.m. by threatening the driver with a knife.
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“The intrusion to the left side [of the victim’s vehicle] is just catastrophic. Unfortunately, the two people that were in that vehicle at the time didn’t stand a chance based on the impact,” Leavitt said. On Florin Perkins Road, the CHP has closed lanes going both ways.
Final Lines
CHP said that once the man is medically cleared, he will be arrested on charges of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, felony DUI causing injury/death, and felony hit and run. Authorities have not yet revealed the names of the man and the two ladies… Whenever we get some more updates regarding the name of the man, then we will try to update the same post or will make a new post.
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