Alameda collision kills 2, injures 6
Two people were killed and six injured, some critically, Monday morning when a truck and a minivan collided in Alameda, police said.
Shortly after 8 a.m., Alameda police and fire personnel were called to Park Street and Lincoln Avenue in response to a 911 call of a rollover vehicle collision.
The minivan had moderate damage, and the driver was taken to a hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries.
The other vehicle, a full-size truck, was badly damaged, and two of the seven occupants were killed, Alameda police said in a statement.
One woman was pronounced dead at the scene, and a man died from his injuries at Highland Hospital. The other five people in the truck were taken to hospitals, with critical injuries.
No information has been release about the victims of the crash.
Eva Padgett, a nurse who lives in an apartment above the crash site on Park Street, had just finished a night shift, walked her dog and was putting together dirty laundry when she “heard the worst possible sound I’ve ever heard in my life.”
“I have a big dog, and she’s not scared of anything,” she said. “And she just absolutely went crazy.”
She ran outside to find several people had been ejected from the truck, including one young man facedown on the asphalt.
Paramedics arrived quickly and cut the roof off the truck, inside of which several occupants were trapped, Padgett said.
The Alameda Police Department’s Major Accident Investigation Team was called to the scene. Police said the truck was speeding down Park Street from Oakland when it clipped the front of the minivan, causing the truck to spin out of control and roll over down the block, toppling several light poles and a tree as it went.
The silver truck came to a stop in front of Alameda Bicy-
cle on Park Street, one of the main thoroughfares in Alameda filled with shops and restaurants.
Broken glass, shoes and debris surrounded the truck on the street, as did the felled tree.
Throughout the morning and into the afternoon of Memorial Day, passersby exchanged stories and rumors about what happened as they queued up in front of nearby brunch spots and snapped photos of the scene under the overcast sky.
Police tape closed several blocks of Park Street and adjacent roads throughout the day as traffic investigators gathered evidence to piece together a picture of what happened.
No pedestrians were injured.