Thread: Police: 2 boys hurt in 2 accidents in Calif. town

Police: 2 boys hurt in 2 accidents in Calif. town
By JOHN S. MARSHALL Associated Press Writer
Posted: 10/03/2010 03:21:21 PM PDT
Updated: 10/03/2010 04:16:21 PM PDT


WOODLAND, Calif.—Two separate weekend accidents involving drinking and driving in the same Northern California community have left two young boys hospitalized—one with serious injuries and the other with possibly life-threatening wounds, police said Sunday.

Woodland police said Alejandro Ramirez Lopez drove over his 1-year-old son in a parking lot at around 1 a.m. Sunday.

The 27-year-old Lopez was arrested and booked into Yolo County Jail on suspicion of felony driving under the influence, according to police. He was due to be arraigned Wednesday after being placed on an immigration hold, a jails record clerk said.

It was not known if Lopez had retained an attorney, and police did not have additional details about the exact nature of the child's possibly life-threatening injuries.

In an earlier incident, Woodland police said officers and a medical personnel responding to a call of a child getting hit by a car around 6:20 p.m. Saturday found a 5-year-old boy semiconscious after he was hit by a car and carried into a nearby home.

The child, who has not been named, was taken by ambulance to UC Davis Trauma Center in Sacramento for what police described as serious injuries.

The driver of the car, identified by police as 20-year-old Francisco Pinon-Martinez was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, as well as driving without a license.

Pinon-Martinez was also due to be arraigned Wednesday, after being placed on an immigration hold. It was not known if he had retained an attorney.

"Accidents involving pedestrians are pretty uncommon just in general (in Woodland)," said police Sgt. Jason Brooks, noting the timing and proximity of the accidents.

Woodland is a community of about 54,000 people 20 miles northwest of Sacramento.

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Just think...less than 3 months ago DUI wasn't included as a trigger for an ICE action.

This is so sad, these people shouldn't be driving, its not a 'right'. Im still waiting to hear if the man who ran over the Freemont motorcycle police officer was illegal. He ran, they haven't caught him yet.