A 5-year-old Gilroy girl was injured in a hit-and-run crash on
Dunlap Road Thursday night.
By Lori Stuenkel
Gilroy – A 5-year-old Gilroy girl was injured in a hit-and-run crash on Dunlap Road Thursday night.
The girl was sitting, unrestrained, on her mother’s lap in the front right passenger seat of a 1996 Chevy pick-up truck traveling southbound on Dunlap about 20 miles per hour, according to the California Highway Patrol.
A 1998 Chevy Blazer, driven by an unknown person, was traveling northbound on the street at a high rate of speed, but was in the southbound lane, the CHP said.
The driver of the pick-up saw the Blazer coming and tried to avoid it by swerving to the right, but was unable to avoid a collision. The vehicles collided head-on about 9:25pm.
The girl was thrown against the windshield in the collision and suffered a head laceration. She was transported to Saint Louise Regional Hospital.
One passenger from the Blazer was injured and remained at the scene, but the driver and another passenger fled the scene on foot and were unable to be located, the CHP said.
Neither suspect had been located as of Friday morning. Passenger Jose Antonio, 18, of Fresno, was also transported to Saint Louise.
“(He) is not giving us good information, he is not being cooperative, so we still have not located the driver,” CHP Officer Chris Armstrong said.
Both the girl and Antonio were treated then released from the hospital Friday morning, he said.
