OAKLAND \u2014 Seven people, including a 15-year-old girl, were injured early Saturday in the Uptown district when police said a car slammed into them on a sidewalk.<\/p>\n
The two occupants of the car fled on foot,\u00a0 leaving the vehicle behind. The mass injuries happened about 1:37 a.m. Saturday in the 500 block of 18th Street, west of Telegraph Avenue.<\/p>\n
The seven injured told police they had attended First Friday, which had ended a few hours earlier and were hanging out in the Uptown area. Police said most of those injured know each other.<\/p>\n
Besides the 15-year-old girl, the other victims were three women, ages 18 and 19, and three men, ages 21, 22 and 23. All but the 22-year-old man are from Oakland. He is believed to be from Pittsburg.<\/p>\n
According to initial police reports, the seven were on the sidewalk when a red Hyundai sedan drove into them, causing various injuries.<\/p>\n
The victims all told police they had no idea why they were struck and police also don\u2019t yet have a motive for what happened.<\/p>\n
Descriptions of the two car occupants who fled were not released.<\/p>\n
Six of the victims were taken to hospitals by ambulance. The 22-year-old man got his own transportation to a hospital.<\/p>\n
All but the 15-year-old girl and one of the 18-year-old women, who both suffered severe leg injuries, were expected to be released from the hospital.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about what happened may call police at 510-238-3426.<\/p>\n
The incident follows two shootings in Uptown Oakland earlier this year. In April, an 18-year-old Vallejo man was shot and injured in an altercation<\/a> and stray bullets also hit a neighboring apartment building, although no injuries were reported. A separate shooting in February<\/a> left another man in critical condition with five gunshot wounds. Both shootings occurred in the 500 block of 17th street.<\/p>\n This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND \u2014 Seven people, including a 15-year-old girl, were injured early Saturday in the Uptown district when police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,184,861,7,1531,723,138,332,1529,181,23,100,143,145,144,94685],"class_list":["post-296926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county","tag-bay-area","tag-bay-area-crime","tag-california","tag-crashes-and-disasters","tag-crime","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-east-bay","tag-east-bay-crime","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-social-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296926","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=296926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}