FOUNTAIN VALLEY : Reward Offered for Tips in Hit-and-Run

Police are seeking information about a hit-and-run accident Nov. 17 on Warner Avenue that injured two construction workers.

About 4 a.m., a pickup truck driven by a young man hit the rear of a construction trailer on Warner Avenue, west of Magnolia Street, police said.

The two workers were loading equipment into the parked trailer and adjoining truck when the collision occurred.

Both workers were taken to the hospital and treated for broken bones, lacerations and bruises, police said.

The owner of the trailer, Kent Schmidt of California Barricade Rentals in Santa Ana, is offering a $2,500 reward for information leading to the arrest of the driver of the pickup, police said.

The driver fled east on Warner Avenue and then south onto the San Diego Freeway, police said.

The driver is described as a white male with a dark mustache, 25 to 30 years old and wearing glasses.

Police said the suspect’s vehicle is a 1985 to 1990 Toyota 4x4 pickup, white with custom wheels, wide tires and a moderate lift.

The vehicle has no shell and sustained moderate damage to its right front and windshield.

There might be orange paint on the vehicle from the barricade trailer.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Police Department at (714) 965-4481.