Posted on 07/23/2015 11:49:43 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A 17-year-old passenger in a speeding Toyota was killed when the car crashed outside a funeral home on Oakland's Telegraph Avenue on Monday night, according to police.
The crash was reported just before 10 p.m. in the 3600 block of Telegraph Avenue in the city's Pill Hill neighborhood. A 17-year-old boy was found dead in a rear passenger seat of the crumpled car. He was not wearing a seatbelt.
Investigators believe the car was speeding south on Telegraph in the left lane. When the driver moved to the right lane, the car jumped the curb, crashed into several parking meters and a palm tree, rolled over and stopped outside Fouche's Hudson Funeral Home at 3665 Telegraph Ave. A woman walking nearby was hit either by the vehicle or flying debris as the car crashed and was taken to a hospital with injuries not considered life-threatening, police said.
The name of the victim was not released by authorities. Relatives said he was to be a high school senior in the fall.
Witnesses told police the driver and several passengers jumped out of the car and ran away after it crashed.
Police are trying to track them down. Oakland police and Crime Stoppers of Oakland are offering a $10,000 reward for an arrest in the case. Anyone with information has been asked to call the department's traffic investigation unit at (510) 777-8570.
RIP.
Could of been a Twilight Zone episode.
Dead weight. ..
“Next stop, Willoughby! Willoughby! Next stop, Willoughby!”
Sounds like Oaklands finest homies were out for a joy ride, so sad, to bad.
The headline says “crashes into” a funeral home, but the article said “came to a stop in front of.”
Maybe the young man was already dead before the crash, and they planned all along to abandon him there.
If his name turns out to be ‘Bernie’ and they were coming from a party....you might be on to something there.
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