Fremont: Alameda County D.A. charges teen in injury collision after weekend I-680 chase
FREMONT — The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office charged a Hayward teen for his role in an injury collision that ended a police pursuit of carjacking suspects that started on city streets and ended on Interstate 680, authorities said.
On Sunday, police said multiple suspects approached a female victim around 5:08 p.m., in a store parking lot on Stevenson Boulevard near Blacow Road.
The suspects stole the victim’s vehicle and fled before police responded. After a surveillance system caught the vehicle in a neighborhood on the city’s north side, officers were able to track and eventually follow it, police said.
Soon after, the fleeing suspects got onto I-680 and crossed into Santa Clara County before crashing into a vehicle on the freeway near Landess Avenue in Milpitas.
The impact ejected a person from the car struck by the fleeing vehicle. First responders provided care before taking the victim to a hospital for further treatment. In a statement Wednesday, police said that person remained in critical condition.
California Highway Patrol officers investigated the collision, which required a Sig-alert closing lanes for more than 90 minutes. Three teenage suspects were taken from the vehicle and arrested, but the carjacking victim was not able to identify any of the three “as being involved in the initial carjacking,” police said.
The district attorney’s office charged the vehicle’s driver with felony counts of fleeing a pursuing police officer causing great bodily injury to a person and possession of a stolen vehicle. The other two teens were released from custody without charges.
The carjacking remains under active investigation, and anyone with information may contact Fremont police Det. Jake Blass by e-mail at JBlass@fremont.gov or call 510-790-6900.
Press Release – December 18, 2022 Carjacking in Fremont Leads to Pursuit Ending in a Collision – https://t.co/DZMj3nrGES pic.twitter.com/mZxPCXjXxC
— Fremont Police Department (@FremontPD) December 22, 2022
Contact George Kelly at 408-859-5180.