My News LA reported recently that a man 47 years of age was charged on Tuesday, April 27. 2021 in connection with an allegedly DUI-caused police pursuit through Orange County that ended in a spectacular motor vehicle accident causing injuries to two people.
According to officials from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, the incident began between 7:55 p.m. and 8:05 p.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST) on Tuesday, April 27, 2021 along the border of Villa Park and Orange, when officers tried to make a routine traffic stop of a 47-year-old man driving a pickup truck. The driver refused to stop and fled the scene at speeds exceeding 100 miles per hour, with police units in pursuit. The suspect was able to lose the pursuers, but a county-wide broadcast allowed an Orange Police Dept unit to locate the vehicle and continue the pursuit. However, the pursuit was terminated due to the danger to bystanders.
At approximately 8:25 p.m. the pickup truck collided with a van at the intersection of Tustin Avenue and Santa Clara Avenue in Santa Ana. Two people in the van were injured.
The pickup driver was charged with two counts of evading police causing bodily injury, one count each of driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury, evading police-reckless driving, hit-and-run with injury and vandalism, as well as multiple felonies.
