{"id":297490,"date":"2026-05-03T04:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T04:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/297490\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T04:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T04:10:09","slug":"car-plows-into-crowd-injuring-7-including-a-child-after-first-fridays-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/297490\/","title":{"rendered":"Car Plows Into Crowd Injuring 7, Including A Child After First Fridays Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OAKLAND, CA \u2014 The Oakland Police Department has <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/oaklandpoliceca?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">spoken out<\/a> about an incident Friday night during which seven people were reportedly hurt after a driver drove onto a sidewalk, careening through a crowd gathered for a First Fridays event.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Oakland Police Department: &#8220;To ensure accurate information is shared: We want to be clear that the violence reported early Saturday morning occurred well after First Friday had officially ended and was not connected to the event in any way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>KRON4 News reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kron4.com\/news\/bay-area\/seven-injured-after-car-plows-through-crowd-after-oakland-first-friday-event\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">seven people were injured<\/a> after a car slammed into a crowd in Oaklands Uptown district just after 1:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The outlet also reported that officers responded to the area of 18th Street and Telegraph Avenue after &#8220;multiple 911 reports of fighting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The car drove onto the sidewalk, striking the pedestrians; the driver then fled on foot, KRON4 News reported.<\/p>\n<p>The San Francisco Chronicle said that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/bayarea\/article\/oakland-pedestrians-injured-driver-flees-22238277.php?fbclid=IwY2xjawRjox1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFJdGVCZ0d3ZUFkZlFIcnZIc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHoyhhirkV3hHKglrnUqoj9jij_tAa-5uNsuaEbx5TGtfIFeJtmaZ3OfvTVtu_aem_E6_Z99IOVCEstcGDY2V1Jg&amp;utm_campaign=mrf-facebook-SFChronicle&amp;mrfcid=2026050369f6919d33032f3d7113fc11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">one of the seven<\/a> injured was a child; all of the pedestrians were in stable condition Saturday afternoon, according to police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND, CA \u2014 The Oakland Police Department has spoken out about an incident Friday night during which seven&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-297490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297490","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=297490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}