A driver died after the pickup he was in crashed into a streetlight during a pursuit with San Diego police officers early Wednesday morning in Barrio Logan, investigators said.<\/p>\n
Police received reports from multiple people around 12:20 a.m. about gunshots possibly involving a pickup near the area of National Avenue and Chicano Park Boulevard, as well as a few blocks away around National Avenue and Evans Street, police Sgt. Saum Poorsaleh said. Officers arrived and checked the area for signs of a shooting.<\/p>\n
Around 30 minutes later, Poorsaleh said officers attempted to pull over a pickup at National Avenue and Chicano Park Boulevard for allegedly failing to stop at a red light.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe truck refused to stop after officers activated their lights and sirens,\u201d Poorsaleh said. \u201cThe truck continued running multiple stop signs and stoplights before officers initiated a felony pursuit.\u201d<\/p>\n
A passenger jumped out of the pickup on Logan Avenue near 31st Street and ran from officers, Poorsaleh said. He was eventually detained.<\/p>\n
The pickup then allegedly drove onto southbound Interstate 5 from Boston Avenue before exiting at Main Street, officers said.<\/p>\n
The pickup then collided with a streetlight at the intersection of Yama and Main streets, causing the pole to fall onto the truck, Poorsaleh said.<\/p>\n
\u201cRendering medical aid to the driver was delayed because the streetlight was still electrified and on the truck,\u201d Poorsaleh said. Once Caltrans deactivated the electrical current, San Diego Fire-Rescue Department personnel and medics then went to assess the driver.<\/p>\n
Officials said the driver died at the scene. He had not been identified as of approximately 3 p.m., Poorsaleh said.<\/p>\n
Police said a firearm was found at the scene and that the police department will be handling the investigation into the reported gunshots. The California Highway Patrol is handling the crash investigation.<\/p>\n
No other information about the investigation was immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver died after the pickup he was in crashed into a streetlight during a pursuit with San…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[24815,7,138,181,23,100,74,84,76,75,1696],"class_list":["post-458793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-barrio-logan","tag-california","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-top-stories-sdut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458793","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=458793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}