{"id":321109,"date":"2026-05-18T11:51:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/321109\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T11:51:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:51:26","slug":"teen-driver-kills-three-pedestrians-in-deadly-oakland-street-crash-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/321109\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen driver kills three pedestrians in deadly Oakland street crash, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your support helps us to tell the story<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 iOIawn\">From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it&#8217;s investigating the financials of Elon Musk&#8217;s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, &#8216;The A Word&#8217;, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 iOIawn\">At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 iOIawn\">The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls. We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it.<\/p>\n<p>Your support makes all the difference.Read more<\/p>\n<p>Three people were dead and multiple were injured after a teenage driver allegedly tore through an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/oakland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland <\/a>street in a horror late-night crash.<\/p>\n<p>Cops say the chaos erupted just after 11 p.m. Saturday when the underage driver \u2014 believed to be speeding \u2014 slammed into a parked car before plowing into pedestrians while turning onto International Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>Three victims were pronounced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/death\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dead<\/a> at the scene as stunned witnesses watched the carnage unfold. Three more pedestrians were rushed to the hospital with injuries ranging from critical to stable.<\/p>\n<p>The teen driver, whose identity has not been released, was arrested and also taken to the hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-18-at-10-08-07.png\"  loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"The crash happened here, along International Boulevard in Oakland, late on Saturday\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE\"\/>The crash happened here, along International Boulevard in Oakland, late on Saturday (Google Maps)<\/p>\n<p>According to audio obtained by <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/post\/3-killed-several-injured-car-plows-crowd-85th-avenue-international-boulevard-oakland-authorities-say\/19119014\/\">ABC San Francisco,<\/a> a first responder to the scene said, \u201cRight now, we&#8217;re looking at four DOAs, two critical, waiting on 26&#8230; 26 is getting on scene&#8230; and waiting on&#8230; we got two ambulances coming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe hit this blue car right here, and I guess he hit the gas and went even faster and went down the whole sidewalk and just sideswiped all those people. And he took off running&#8230;I saw him hit this car. I seen him coming, but there was nothing I could do. He was going too fast,\u201d a witness told the station.<\/p>\n<p>Another witness, Michael Turner, also described the scene, saying, \u201cYou heard tires screeching, then all of a sudden you heard a loud bang. You heard tires screeching, then all of a sudden you heard a loud bang.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During an interview with <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/least-3-killed-when-car-plows-pedestrians-east-oakland\">KTVU, <\/a>another witness, Cornelius Reed, described the horror at the scene. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI ran over there, but I couldn&#8217;t do nothing for nobody. I mean legs, legs bent opposite directions, arms going every which way. It was ugly. It was an ugly scene.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police are still investigating whether alcohol or drugs played a role in the deadly smash-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-321109","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\/321109","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=321109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}