{"id":91563,"date":"2025-12-12T08:14:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T08:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/91563\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T08:14:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T08:14:28","slug":"8-anaheim-high-school-running-team-members-struck-by-suspected-dui-driver-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/91563\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Anaheim High School running team members struck by suspected DUI driver, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Eight students on the <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/place\/anaheim\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Anaheim;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Anaheim<\/a> High School running team were injured after a suspected DUI driver plowed into them during a training run Wednesday afternoon, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The high school students were waiting at the intersection of Harbor Boulevard and W. North Street when they were hit by a car that went off the road just before 3 p.m., according to the Anaheim Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said eight students, between 16 and 17 years old, were struck. Three were immediately taken to a hospital with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Eyewitness News obtained surveillance video from a nearby business that shows a red Toyota veer right and head toward the corner where the students were standing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Eight members of the Anaheim High School running team were hurt when a vehicle plowed into them at a street intersection, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;All I could see was people running around hysterically trying to save somebody right in front of that car,&#8221; witness Eddie Martinez recalled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The driver, only identified as a 27-year-old Anaheim man, was also taken to a hospital in unknown condition. He was later arrested on suspicion of DUI and will be booked once he&#8217;s released from the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said a coach was running with the students and was coming up to the intersection when he witnessed the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Eight members of the Anaheim High School running team were hurt when a vehicle plowed into them at a street intersection, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">School resource officers were on scene following the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For Martinez, a parent of two student athletes attending Anaheim High, the crash feels like a bad case of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It&#8217;s becoming a common thing around here,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In 2022, a <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/whittier-los-angeles-county-sheriffs-department-accident-recruits\/12458907\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:wrong-way driver slammed;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">wrong-way driver slammed<\/a> into a group of law enforcement recruits during a morning run in Whittier, injuring 25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Last year, a <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/anaheim-students-struck-car-spins-out-speeding\/14422339\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:speeding driver spun out;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">speeding driver spun out<\/a>, hit a pole and struck students on a sidewalk near the Anaheim Tennis Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eight students on the Anaheim High School running team were injured after a suspected DUI driver plowed into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,50001,164,50594,951,48791],"class_list":["post-91563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-high-school","tag-anaheim-news","tag-eddie-martinez","tag-high-school","tag-street-intersection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91563","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=91563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}