A Lakeside man was arrested on suspicion of fleeing after the SUV he was allegedly driving struck a 12-year-old pedestrian in El Cajon, leaving the youth severely injured.<\/p>\n
The 35-year-old man was allegedly driving a white BMW X5 that hit the boy on Ballantyne Street, south of Park Avenue, about 8 p.m. Wednesday, according to the El Cajon Police Department.<\/p>\n
Emergency personnel arrived to find the victim lying in the roadway with extensive head injuries. The driver fled, leaving vehicle debris scattered in the street, Lt. Joe Crawford said.<\/p>\n
Paramedics took the child to a hospital, where he was admitted in critical condition. He remained hospitalized with stable vital signs Friday, Crawford said.<\/p>\n
An automated license-plate reader and other databases identified the alleged vehicle, and detectives found it parked at a Lakeside business, damaged in a manner consistent with the crash, according to police. Officers then located and arrested the suspect.<\/p>\n
The suspect was booked into San Diego Central Jail on suspicion of felony hit-and-run causing great bodily injury. He was being held on $50,000 bail pending arraignment, scheduled for Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Lakeside man was arrested on suspicion of fleeing after the SUV he was allegedly driving struck a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":329947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,5295,20161,21030,1370,728,50,3549,3550,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-329946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-east-county","13":"tag-el-cajon","14":"tag-latest-headlines","15":"tag-local-news","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-san-diego","18":"tag-san-diego-county","19":"tag-sandiego","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115431042352193160","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}