PITTSBURG, Calif. (KRON) – One individual is useless in Pittsburg after a driver slammed right into a pole and a fireplace hydrant on Monday.
A automobile misplaced management close to Gladstone Drive and barreled right into a pole and hearth hydrant, sending water taking pictures into the air. Native residents say that whereas this isn’t the primary time this has occurred, it has been the worst crash.
Just one car was concerned. Not lengthy after affect, Pittsburg resident Sandra Hackett says the automobile was totally engulfed in flames.
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Hackett says the flames have been so scorching and excessive that there’s no means she believes anybody may have made it out alive.
“It was such a hard hit. Very quickly went into flames,” she mentioned.
Pittsburg police dispatch confirmed that the motive force didn’t survive. One other native mentioned drivers within the space have to decelerate, and he desires to see extra lights alongside the roadway.
“It’s also dark too, so they just zoom. They don’t see there’s like a curve around there and they just – bam – hit either these power poles or the transformers on the street,” mentioned the person, named Raymond.
Police haven’t shared whether or not medicine and/or alcohol have been components within the crash.