2 Teens Fleeing Police Injured in Crash
Two Santa Ana teens were seriously injured Friday night when their pickup crashed while they were fleeing police, authorities said.
The incident began when Garden Grove police responded to a report of a fight at the Fire Station Motel on Harbor Boulevard about 9 p.m., Police Sgt. Paul McInerny said.
The officers followed a white Toyota pickup heading south on Harbor from Palm Street, McInerny said. At Harbor and Garden Grove Boulevard, the pickup ran onto the sidewalk and hit a traffic pole, he said.
The two occupants, both 17, were injured, he said. Paramedics took the driver to UCI Medical Center in Orange, where he was listed in critical condition with a shattered pelvis, broken right femur, separated rectum and facial cuts, McInerny said.
Officers said they found the passenger holding a .357 magnum revolver. He was taken to UCI in serious condition, police said.
Neither was arrested Friday, but police have asked that charges be filed once the youths are released from the hospital, McInerny said.
He said police want to charge both teens with auto theft and probation violations plus felony evading for the driver and felony possession of a loaded firearm for the passenger.
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