CHP: Search underway for driver who intentionally ran over man on Sacramento freeway

Driver sought after man ran over by car in Sacramento

SACRAMENTO — The search is underway for a driver accused of running over a passenger who exited their vehicle in Sacramento on Thursday.

It happened shortly before 8 p.m. on the Northgate Boulevard exit ramp from eastbound Interstate 80. A couple pulled off to the side of the road.

As a man was exiting the vehicle, the driver, his girlfriend, pulled away before he was all the way out. The woman ran the man over, dragging him under the vehicle, the California Highway Patrol's North Sacramento division said.

That man has since been hospitalized in critical condition.

There was no further description available on the suspect.

No further details were released at this time.

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