A hit-and-run driver sped onto the crowded boardwalk at Los Angeles's Venice Beach on Saturday evening, striking at least a dozen people and injuring two critically, before fleeing, Los Angeles Fire Department officials said.
Maarten Smitskamp/Associated Press
Pedestrians gathered after a vehicle drove into a crowd at the Venice Beach boardwalk in Los Angeles.
Witnesses said the car, a dark-colored sedan, had "moved purposefully along the boardwalk," striking pedestrians, said Brian Humphrey, a spokesman for the fire department.
In addition to the two people who were critically injured, two sustained serious injuries and eight suffered minor injuries, he said. Ten victims were taken to a hospital.
Thousands of tourists had descended on the beachside strip, where they could watch the sunset and buy hemp bracelets and henna tattoos, before the car appeared just after 6 p.m., Mr. Humphrey said.
Photographs posted on Twitter soon afterward by @snapchat, a photo-sharing smartphone app, showed surveillance footage of a dark-blue sedan heading toward pedestrians on the boardwalk, who appeared to be trying to run away.
Other photos on Twitter showed the ensuing chaos on the Ocean Front Walk. Dozens of firefighters tended to victims. Merchants' tables and chairs were left overturned. And a crowd of hundreds gathered around.
By the time paramedics arrived, the driver was no longer at the scene. The Los Angeles police were searching for the car.
In 2003, a car plowed into a Santa Monica farmers' market, just a few miles from the Venice boardwalk, killing nine people.
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