Mayhem On PCH: Hijacked Truck Smashes Thru Traffic, Flips Over In Camarillo
Written by 991KBU on March 22, 2021
The regular Sunday evening chaos on Pacific Coast Highway grew violent Sunday night … when a bobtail truck’s driver smashed through slow traffic while being chased by sheriff’s deputies.
At least five cars were sideswiped in the police chase … during the 5 p-m hour.
It may have started in Malibu … where the truck was hijacked an a passenger inside it injured with a knife attack.
The crash went up PCH into Ventura County … where it ended with a violent collision with another car on Highway 118 north of Camarillo.
A motorist who was geting a ticket said he saw the CHP officer deploy a spike strip.
The truck went out of control … hit another vehicle … and eventually wrecked … a twisted heap … in a roadside ditch..
The truck driver was pinned inside the overturned truck … wedged tight in the wreckage.
CHP officers and Ventura County sheriff’s deputies held him at gunpoint … as firefighters used hydraulic tools to pry the wreckage apart.
Across the two-lane highway … the other car was upside down … its driver injured.
Back in Malibu … deputies took reports from peoPle inside no fewer than five cars … some of them with their entire left side gouged away.
One family had two babies in car seats … they were traumatized but not physically hurt.
In both L A County and Ventura County … the truck barreled between cars where traffic had slowed or stopped.
Five cars were smashed in the Malibu Pier area.
Another at Trancas.
No word yet on why the truck was originally being chased.
L A County deputies arrested the driver for assault with a deadly weapon …as he was being taken to a Ventura County hospital.
