High-Speed Bike Chase Ends in Crash
A motorcyclist stopped by sheriff’s deputies for turning without signaling led the deputies on a high-speed chase on and off the Foothill Freeway before the motorcycle crashed in Glendale, deputies said Tuesday.
Sheriff’s Sgt. Ron Mills said that Carlos Hernandez, 18, of San Fernando, was treated for head and other injuries at Huntington Memorial Hospital. Hernandez was then transferred to the County-USC Medical Center jail ward, where he was arrested for suspicion of evading a police officer, causing serious bodily harm and reckless driving, Mills said.
A passenger, Daniel Castaneda of San Fernando, was being treated for serious injuries at Huntington Memorial Hospital.
Mills said that when two deputies stopped Hernandez and Castaneda after they turned right without signaling at Montrose and Ocean View avenues in La Crescenta, the pair fled onto the southbound lanes of the Foothill Freeway at speeds exceeding 100 m.p.h. About 50 minutes later, police were called to the Lincoln Avenue off-ramp of the Foothill Freeway, where Hernandez had crashed his motorcycle, Mills said.
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