Police: Alcohol a Suspected Factor in Life-Threatening Crash

Roseville Police suspect alcohol may be a factor in a Friday night crash that sent a 23-year-old Sacramento woman to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, and hospitalized her 19-year-old passenger.

Around 7:40 p.m., the driver crashed into a van being driven by a 59-year-old Rancho Cordova man who was not injured, police say.

Here are more details, courtesy of the police department:

The Roseville Police Department is investigating a major injury collision on Foothills Boulevard south of McAnally Drive.  At 7:40 p.m., a Roseville police officer driving north on Foothills Boulevard saw a car being driven southbound on Foothills at a high rate of speed.  The officer made a u-turn in order to get behind the speeding car, a 1997 Toyota Avalon four-door sedan, but by the time he made the turn, the Toyota sedan had collided with a 1990 Dodge van that was making a right turn out of a shopping center onto southbound Foothills.  The sedan spun and traveled up onto a landscaping embankment in front of the shopping center.

The driver of the Toyota sedan, a 23-year-old woman from Sacramento, was taken to the hospital by ambulance with life-threatening injuries.  Her passenger, a 19-year-old man from Sacramento, was also taken to the hospital with serious but not life-threatening injuries.  The driver of the van, a 59-year-old man from Rancho Cordova, didn’t report being injured.

Alcohol is a suspected factor in the collision.  The southbound lanes of Foothills Boulevard between McAnally Drive and Junction Boulevard will be closed for the next several hours while members of the Roseville Police Department’s Major Accident Investigation Team examine the scene.

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