\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA driver suspected of DUI during a deadly head-on crash Thursday may have been involved in a hit-and-run crash minutes before, the Elk Grove Police Department said. The Elk Grove Police Department said the crash happened around 9:15 p.m. on Elk Grove Boulevard. A 78-year-old Elk Grove driver in a white sedan was traveling eastbound on Elk Grove Boulevard and approaching Stonelake Club Drive when a silver sedan traveling eastbound got into the westbound lane.Police said the silver sedan then hit the center median, causing it to go airborne before hitting the 78-year-old’s white sedan head-on. He died at the scene.The silver sedan came to a rest, overturned on its side in the center median, police said. The white sedan had major damage to its roof, windshield and driver’s side.Investigators believe the silver sedan driver, a 51-year-old Sacramento woman, was fleeing from a hit-and-run crash that happened earlier on Elk Grove Boulevard near Franklin Boulevard, about a half-mile away from this second crash, police said. Alcohol appears to be a factor in the crash, police said.Both people were sole occupants in their vehicles.Police said the woman was taken to the hospital for serious but non-life-threatening injuries. She may be charged “as the investigation progresses and her medical condition improves.”The identities of both the man and the woman were not released.This is a developing story. Stay with KCRA 3 for the latest. See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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A driver suspected of DUI during a deadly head-on crash Thursday may have been involved in a hit-and-run crash minutes before, the Elk Grove Police Department said. <\/p>\n
The Elk Grove Police Department said the crash happened around 9:15 p.m. on Elk Grove Boulevard. A 78-year-old Elk Grove driver in a white sedan was traveling eastbound on Elk Grove Boulevard and approaching Stonelake Club Drive when a silver sedan traveling eastbound got into the westbound lane.<\/p>\n
Police said the silver sedan then hit the center median, causing it to go airborne before hitting the 78-year-old’s white sedan head-on. He died at the scene.<\/p>\n
The silver sedan came to a rest, overturned on its side in the center median, police said. The white sedan had major damage to its roof, windshield and driver’s side.<\/p>\n
Investigators believe the silver sedan driver, a 51-year-old Sacramento woman, was fleeing from a hit-and-run crash that happened earlier on Elk Grove Boulevard near Franklin Boulevard, about a half-mile away from this second crash, police said. Alcohol appears to be a factor in the crash, police said.<\/p>\n
Both people were sole occupants in their vehicles.<\/p>\n
Police said the woman was taken to the hospital for serious but non-life-threatening injuries. She may be charged “as the investigation progresses and her medical condition improves.”<\/p>\n
The identities of both the man and the woman were not released.<\/p>\n
This is a developing story. Stay with KCRA 3 for the latest. <\/p>\n
See more coverage of top California stories here<\/a> | Download our app<\/a> | Subscribe to our morning newsletter<\/a> | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver suspected of DUI during a deadly head-on crash Thursday may have been involved in a hit-and-run…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5867,11357,4,450,15441,5495,18276,328328,50669,328324,328326,328325,451,3,22215,1583,59160,22330,18898,18901,452,453,10129,328327],"class_list":["post-768894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-alcohol","tag-app","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-crash","tag-direction","tag-download","tag-east-taron-drive","tag-eastbound-lane","tag-elk-grove-boulevard","tag-elk-grove-crash","tag-elk-grove-police","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-p-m","tag-police","tag-road-closure","tag-sole-occupant","tag-subscribe","tag-top-california-story","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-vehicle","tag-waterfowl-drive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}