4 injured after 2-vehicle crash ends with pickup truck on roof of Sacramento County home
Four people were seriously injured, taken to hospitals Monday morning after a two-vehicle crash in Citrus Heights that resulted in one of the vehicles landing partially atop a residence, authorities said.
The two vehicles crashed around 9 a.m. near Roseville Road and Whyte Avenue in Citrus Heights, the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District said in social media posts.
The incident started when police in Roseville were alerted to a report of a stolen pickup truck, California Highway Patrol North Sacramento spokesman Officer Justin Fetterly said.
A Roseville officer attempted to approach the suspect vehicle, but was not pursuing it with lights or sirens activated, when the officer witnessed the pickup crash into another vehicle occupied by three people, Fetterly said, including a child.
All four occupants were transported to hospitals with major injuries, Fetterly said.
The pickup truck was driven by a man in his 30s, who was the lone occupant. Fetterly said the other vehicle was driven by a man in his early 40s, with a woman in her 30s and a male juvenile also in the vehicle.
The pickup driver is in custody at the hospital, Fetterly said. What charges he faces is not known.
Photos of the crash from Metro Fire showed a pickup truck that appeared to be split in half, with its front cabin on the ground while its bed and rear end came to rest perched on top of a dividing wall and a residential structure next to the wall.
The other involved vehicle, a sedan, also had severe damage, and a wood fence on an adjacent lot had been knocked down.
CHP officers, Citrus Heights police and Roseville police responded to the scene, photos show.
In August, a pickup truck crashed into a home on Zachis Way, in nearby Antelope, killing a resident inside the home.
This story was originally published October 24, 2022 at 11:01 AM.
