{"id":320257,"date":"2026-05-17T18:11:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T18:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/320257\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T18:11:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T18:11:20","slug":"3-killed-several-injured-after-car-plows-into-pedestrians-in-east-oakland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/320257\/","title":{"rendered":"3 killed, several injured after car plows into pedestrians in East Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The crash happened at about 11:15 p.m. in the area of International Boulevard and 85th Avenue, and a witness said the incident began with a collision between a blue vehicle and a black SUV outside the East Bay Market Liquor Store.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The SUV then accelerated and drove onto the sidewalk, and rammed into the pedestrians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">KTVU is awaiting a comment from the Oakland Police Department, as officers have been at the scene overnight investigating what happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">OAKLAND, Calif. &#8211; Three pedestrians were killed and several others were hurt when a car rammed into them late Saturday night in East Oakland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The crash happened at about 11:15 p.m. in the area of International Boulevard and 85th Avenue.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/c05d6ff267be920987ba120b54e9bdbf.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A witness said the incident began with a collision between a blue vehicle and a black SUV outside the East Bay Market Liquor Store.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The SUV then accelerated and drove onto the sidewalk, and rammed into the pedestrians, before crashing into another car, said Cornelius Reed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Reed said he tried to help the injured victims, and that several of them were friends he had known for his entire life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I ran over there, but I couldn&#8217;t do nothing for nobody,&#8221; Reed said. &#8220;I mean legs, legs bent opposite directions, arms going every which way. It was ugly. It was an ugly scene.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Reed said the driver got out of the SUV and tried to run away, but was caught by good Samaritans before Oakland police officers arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Some of the injured who survived the initial crash were rushed to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/30bef0a933bf3a4e241f301636622e3c.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we don&#8217;t know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">KTVU is awaiting a comment from the Oakland Police Department, as officers have been at the scene overnight investigating what happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">So far, there&#8217;s no official word about the suspect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Witnesses at scene of crash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief The crash happened at about 11:15 p.m. in the area of International Boulevard and 85th Avenue,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[133655,133654,44618,12583,143,145,144,407,18775],"class_list":["post-320257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-cornelius-reed","tag-east-bay-market-liquor-store","tag-international-boulevard","tag-ktvu","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-oakland-police-department","tag-pedestrians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320257","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=320257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}