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ANAHEIM, Calif. – Two people are dead and several others are in critical condition after a multi-car crash in Anaheim early Tuesday morning. Police say the crash happened when one of the cars ran a red light, striking multiple vehicles at a busy intersection.<\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
The crash happened just before 1 a.m. at the intersection of Lincoln Avenue and Anaheim Boulevard.<\/p>\n
Anaheim police say the chain of events began around 12:45 a.m., when an officer spotted the silver Infiniti driving erratically near Harbor Boulevard and Cypress Street.<\/p>\n
Investigators say the driver turned off the vehicle\u2019s lights and sped away. Police emphasized that officers never activated their emergency lights and were never in pursuit.<\/p>\n
A short time later, the silver Infiniti ran a red light at Lincoln Ave. and Anaheim Blvd., crashing into multiple vehicles, including a blue Honda Accord, a red Toyota Camry and a white Cadillac Escalade.<\/p>\n
Four people were inside the Infiniti. A passenger in that vehicle was pronounced dead at the scene. The three other passengers, including two teenage girls seated in the back, were critically injured and transported to hospitals.<\/p>\n
Police also confirmed the driver of the red Toyota Camry died at the scene.<\/p>\n
In total, seven people were involved in the crash involving four vehicles.\u00a0<\/p>\n
SUGGESTED: San Clemente pursuit crash: Innocent person killed after stolen U-Haul slams into car<\/a><\/p>\n Investigation underway <\/p>\n Traffic investigators remained on scene for hours, marking evidence, taking measurements and reconstructing how the crash unfolded.<\/p>\n Authorities say traffic cameras captured the moment the Infiniti ran the red light.<\/p>\n The intersection of Lincoln Avenue and Anaheim Boulevard was reopened to traffic just after 7 a.m. Tuesday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n A witness at the scene said he saw police following the suspect’s vehicle just before the crash.<\/p>\n However, Anaheim police say officers were never in pursuit and witnessed the collision.<\/p>\n The Source: This story was written with information from the Anaheim Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n Anaheim<\/a>Orange County<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. – Two people are dead and several others are in critical condition after a multi-car crash…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,1184,2042,100,611,1181],"class_list":["post-245175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-ca","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}