Major Vehicle Accident In Antioch Sends 3 To Hospital: Updated

UPDATE 12:40PM-

ANTIOCH - Antioch's mayor comforted a man who suffered serious injuries in a high-speed crash late Tuesday night after a City Council meeting.

Police responded at 10:22 p.m. to the intersection of A Street and a state Highway 4 on-ramp on reports of a collision and a man trapped inside a vehicle.

When officers arrived, they found an SUV had crashed into a utility truck.

Mayor Wade Harper arrived shortly after the collision occurred and saw a councilwoman on her phone. Her vehicle had been clipped by the SUV before it crashed into the truck, Harper said.

Harper said the SUV had major front-end damage and smoke was coming from the engine. He told someone to call and ask for a code 3 ambulance because the driver, the only person in the SUV, was pinned inside.

He also asked someone to get a fire extinguisher, which a woman in a van obtained from a nearby Chevron gas station. Harper said he then told the woman how to use it on the smoking engine.

Harper said he learned the man in the car, a 35-year-old Antioch resident, was named Mike. Harper said he told the man help was on the way and that he was going to be OK. Harper asked him if he was hurting, but the man didn't say anything more than his name.

Harper said he stayed until fire crews extricated the man. "My prayers are that Mike is OK," Harper said.

The two people in the utility truck were taken to a hospital with minor injuries.

Police said speed played a part in the crash but they don't yet know whether drugs or alcohol were a factor.

-Bay City News

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ANTIOCH - A major vehicle crash in Antioch late Tuesday night sent three men in the hospital, according to police.

Police said officers responded at 10:22 p.m. to the intersection of A Street and the state Highway 4 on-ramp on reports of a vehicle collision with a person trapped inside.

Upon arrival, officers located an SUV that had struck a parked highway utility truck, police said.

According to police, the driver and sole occupant of the SUV, a 35-year-old Antioch man, was trapped in the vehicle and had to be extricated by Contra Costa County Fire Protection District crews.

Once freed, he was taken to a hospital with major injuries. The two occupants of the work vehicle were transported to a hospital with minor injuries.

During an investigation of the incident, police said officers discovered the driver of the SUV had collided with another vehicle at the intersection of A Street and Rossi Avenue just prior to the collision on A Street and Highway 4.

There were no injuries reported in that incident.

According to police, speed was a factor in the collisions and investigators do not yet know whether drugs or alcohol played a role.

Police were not immediately available to confirm media reports that Mayor Wade Harper was among the first people to come across the crash scene and helped the victims.

Anyone with information about the case is encouraged to contact the Antioch Police Department at (925) 778-2441.

-Bay City News, image via ShutterStock