A 19-year-old driver allegedly going over 100 mph was seriously injured Wednesday evening after losing control of his car and crashing near the Oakland Hills, according to the Oakland Fire Department.<\/p>\n
The crash was reported at about 6:50\u00a0p.m., when the vehicle veered off Interstate 580 near the Highway 13 exit, struck a tree and spun around before catching fire. Good Samaritans were able to extinguish the small blaze before fire crews arrived, OFD spokesman Michael Hunt said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Despite the quick actions of passing motorists, it took firefighters about 30 minutes to extricate the driver, Hunt said. The damage to the vehicle, believed to be a Mercedes, and where it came to rest on an embankment, made it difficult for crews to immediately provide aid to the driver.<\/p>\n
His condition was not immediately known, but authorities said he was speaking after the crash.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
He was believed to have been going at least 100 mph before crashing, which is well above the speed limit for that stretch of road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 19-year-old driver allegedly going over 100 mph was seriously injured Wednesday evening after losing control of his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[184,7,723,332,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-258906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-crime","tag-east-bay","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258906","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=258906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}