A high-speed police chase led to a violent crash Saturday night when a car carrying four people crashed into the side of a Culver City home, authorities said.
Video from the crash scene shows a red pickup truck crashing through a guardrail on Sawtelle Boulevard and crashing into the side of the home. Its rear wheels were left outside.
The passengers, two men and two women, were not seriously injured, according to Officer Erik Larsen of the California Highway Patrol, and no one was home either.
One person was detained and a firearm was recovered in a nearby field, according to Larsen.
The red Dodge Durango was spotted by police when the driver failed to yield around 9:40 p.m. The police chase soon continued on the northbound 405 Freeway near the Sepulveda Boulevard exit.
According to the CHP, the vehicle was traveling on the shoulder of the highway.
The driver left the freeway, then re-entered southbound and finally exited onto Culver Boulevard in Culver City, where he crashed into the side of the house.
Larsen said the truck took “approximately 300 feet of guardrail” with it.
The off-ramp was subsequently closed all Sunday morning while the California Department of Transportation repaired the rail, he said.
A person who said he was a passenger in the car spoke to OnSceneTV and said he “thought he was going to die.”
He told the news service that his friend was driving when he saw the “red and blue lights” of the CHP patrol car and the driver “decided to just run away.”
Larsen said the collision caused extensive damage to the home.
