2 Die in Anaheim as Crash Ends Short Police Pursuit of Stolen Car

Two passengers in a stolen car pursued by police in Anaheim died Tuesday morning after the driver hit a tree, authorities said.

Police arrested the driver -- Robert Thomas Hurlburt, 23, of Cerritos -- on suspicion of murder, said Anaheim Police Sgt. Rick Martinez.

A female passenger, identified as Faye Woolever, 40, of Anaheim, died at the scene.

A male passenger died later at a hospital that police declined to identify.

Authorities would not name him until family members had been notified.

The police pursuit began Tuesday about 9:20 a.m. when Anaheim patrol officers spotted a car speeding erratically through a quiet neighborhood near Lincoln Avenue and North Olive Street.

The pursuit lasted about one minute and covered less than two blocks.

The car first crashed into a sport utility vehicle driven by Roland Weinhold, a 56-year-old printer headed to his job at State College Boulevard and Lincoln Avenue.

Though his vehicle flipped onto its roof, Weinhold was not seriously injured, police said.

The car kept traveling south on Olive for about half a block before crashing into a tree.

The force of the second crash was so great that Woolever was dismembered, Martinez said.

The driver, although seriously injured, tried to run away, but was captured by police and taken to UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange, where he remained hospitalized Tuesday.

Weinhold said the accident happened so fast he had no time to react.

“One minute I’m driving and the next minute I was hanging upside down” in the car, he said. “I don’t remember what happened. It happened in the blink of an eye.”

He unbuckled his seat belt and said someone helped him out of the vehicle.

Reinhold said he called his wife on his cellular phone.

With tears in his eyes, he said he told her, “I just thank God I’m alive.”