A suspected drunk driver final week slammed into spectators ready to look at a Christmas parade in downtown Bakersfield, injuring three folks, police stated.
On Thursday night, about half an hour earlier than the beginning of the annual Bakersfield Christmas Parade, a person in a white pickup truck drove backward by an alleyway close to the parade route at a excessive fee of pace, coming to a cease subsequent to a metropolis fireplace station on twenty first Avenue, the Bakersfield Police Division stated in a press release.
The Ford F-150 hit three male parade spectators, ages 21, 42 and 77. Authorities haven’t launched their names.
Bakersfield firefighters who had been close by “instantly rendered medical help” to the lads, who had been taken to a neighborhood hospital and had been in secure situation, authorities stated.
The motive force, Alan Sales space, 72, of Bakersfield, was arrested on suspicion of driving inebriated, police stated.
Officer Francisco Esguerra, a Bakersfield police watch commander, advised the Instances on Saturday night time that Sales space was at a hospital being handled for accidents associated to the crash and had not but been booked into jail.
Sales space couldn’t be reached for remark.
Cops who had been getting ready for the parade close by heard the truck speed up earlier than the collision, authorities stated.
The collision additionally broken a meals truck, Poppi’s Pastrami & Extra.
“He pushed my entire truck. He pushed it like 8 [feet],” Misti Cole, the meals truck proprietor, advised KBAK Fox58.
Pictures on the Poppi’s Pastrami & Extra Fb web page present the Dodge Ram pickup truck that was hauling the meals trailer with a smashed entrance finish.
Cole advised the information station that her kids had been within the meals trailer on the time of the crash and that different kids had been sitting in chairs close by to look at the parade.
“Vans will be changed. These individuals who bought hit, they will’t get replaced,” Cole advised KBAK.
Poppi’s Pastrami, she stated, is her household’s important supply of earnings.
The parade was rerouted and briefly delayed.