5 Killed in Crash Near Cajon Pass : Accident: CHP is seeking driver of vehicle who sped from scene. Five others are injured in the multi-car collision.

Five people were killed and five were injured Saturday in a collision involving at least four cars on a curving stretch of highway in the Cajon Pass area, authorities said.

The Highway Patrol was seeking the driver who sped from the scene, a dispatcher said.

The accident occurred at 2:45 p.m. on California 138 near the Mormon Rocks area, a two-lane road that leads to several ski areas in the San Bernardino Mountains. The crash blocked traffic on the highway for several hours.

“One car looked like a bomb had gone through it. The engine was completely dismantled and thrown off to the side. Another car was thrown 30 feet down an embankment,” said Tony Hoffman, San Bernardino County fire paramedic.

Hoffman said all four people in a small car were killed and one person in another car died. All were adults.

Five others were injured, three seriously, Hoffman said. They were taken to Loma Linda Medical Center and Victor Valley Community Hospital.

Identities of the victims were not immediately known.

The paramedic said it appeared that two vehicles collided head-on and a third vehicle struck the wreckage.

But CHP officials were not able to confirm that sequence of events.

CHP dispatcher Kim Dickinson said a 1990 black Ford Escort with tinted windows sped from the scene, and CHP officers were seeking its driver for investigation of felony hit and run.