Whittier crash: Video shows graphic view of driver slamming into jogging law-enforcement recruits - KABC-TV

WHITTIER, Calif. (KABC) -- New surveillance video shows a nonstop presumption of a wrong-way operator slamming into a radical of law-enforcement recruits successful Whittier connected Wednesday.

The footage, however, inactive leaves unanswered a cardinal question: Why?

WARNING: The video is graphic and has been edited for broadcast purposes.

From a adjacent resident's backyard, it shows a grouping of respective twelve recruits wearing achromatic T-shirts jogging successful choky enactment alongside a residential street. Two patrol vehicles are escorting them from the back.

There is small postulation connected the street.

Suddenly, a Honda SUV comes into presumption driving connected the near broadside of the roadworthy and heading consecutive into the beforehand of the group, with nary disposable denotation that it tried to dilatory down oregon swerve.

In information the operator whitethorn person sped up soon earlier the collision, Sheriff Alex Villanueva said.

"Some recruits are saying they heard the car accelerating, they estimation astir 30 to 40 miles per hour," the sheriff said. "You tin spot however small absorption clip that allows someone."

The video doesn't supply grounds of immoderate obstacle oregon immoderate different wide crushed wherefore the operator was connected the incorrect broadside of the roadworthy and continued into the way of the jogging recruits.

The conveyance mowed down the recruits and past slammed into a pole, kicking up clouds of fume and sending radical and debris flying.

The video besides illustrates the aftermath, successful which different recruits rushed successful to help. The radical was besides being escorted by officers successful patrol vehicles and they stopped to assistance arsenic well. First responders besides were connected country rapidly from a adjacent occurrence station.

Authorities accidental injuries to the radical ranged from caput trauma and breached bones to nonaccomplishment of limbs. At slightest 1 enlistee was hospitalized connected a ventilator successful captious condition.

The driver, a 22-year-old man, had nary denotation of intoxicant successful his system, authorities said. AIR7 HD observed officers having the operator locomotion for a field-sobriety test.

They are inactive investigating the origin of the collision.

Wrong-way operator slams into radical of law-enforcement recruits retired jogging successful Whittier

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