Antioch Mayor Stops To Help After Injury Crash On Highway 4
ANTIOCH (CBS SF) – Antioch's mayor comforted a man who suffered serious injuries in a high-speed crash late Tuesday night after a City Council meeting.
Police responded at 10:22 p.m. to the intersection of A Street and a state Highway 4 on-ramp on reports of a collision and a man trapped inside a vehicle.
When officers arrived, they found an SUV had crashed into a utility truck.
Mayor Wade Harper arrived shortly after the collision occurred and saw a councilwoman on her phone. Her vehicle had been clipped by the SUV before it crashed into the truck, Harper said.
Harper said the SUV had major front-end damage and smoke was coming from the engine. He told someone to call and ask for a code 3 ambulance because the driver, the only person in the SUV, was pinned inside.
He also asked someone to get a fire extinguisher, which a woman in a van obtained from a nearby Chevron gas station. Harper said he then told the woman how to use it on the smoking engine.
Harper said he learned the man in the car, a 35-year-old Antioch resident, was named Mike. Harper said he told Mike help was on the way and that he was going to be OK.
Harper asked him if he was hurting, but the man didn't say anything more than his name.
Harper said he stayed until fire crews extricated the man.
"My prayers are that Mike is OK," Harper said.
The two people in the utility truck were taken to a hospital with minor injuries.
Police said speed played a part in the crash but they don't yet know whether drugs or alcohol were a factor.
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