Tustin : Marine Jailed After Car Chase, Accident
A Marine stationed in El Toro was in jail Monday, suspected of drunk driving after he rammed his car into a vehicle carrying four children while fleeing police, police said.
Bryan McKinney, 20, was held on suspicion of reckless driving, drunk driving and assault with a deadly weapon, Tustin police said. No serious injuries were reported.
Officer Russell Whitehead said he tried to pull McKinney over for reckless driving at the intersection of Newport and McFadden avenues Sunday night. McKinney fled, leading the police on a chase southbound down the Santa Ana Freeway, Whitehead said.
During the chase, Whitehead said, McKinney tried to ram the police car and eventually struck a station wagon, carrying Melanie Moeller and four children, as he exited the freeway. Moeller’s car was damaged.
The chase ended when McKinney’s car flipped over in a graded, gravel area where Jamboree Road dead-ends into an agricultural field, and the car caught fire.
The fire was extinguished immediately, and McKinney was taken to United Western Medical Center-Santa Ana, even though he was not seriously injured.
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