A driver is in custody after hitting someone on the beach in Santa Monica Thursday night, police said.
Around 11:30 p.m. Thursday, first responders rushed onto the sand near a Cirque du Soleil Kooza set up on the beach to try to free a person pinned under a silver SUVaccording to KABC.
The video showed firefighters digging under the SUV while others stood nearby with wooden blocks that could be used to remove a vehicle stuck in the sand.
“We were just walking by and walking our dog and I saw the car stuck out there… but I saw the car door open… and it looked like a bunch of people ran away from that car, first, so I wasn’t sure what the hell was going on,” witness Shyler Compton told KABC.
At least two people got out of the SUV and tried to move it but that was it stuck on top of the victimKTLA reported. The police took the driver into custody. Video shows a crying man in handcuffs being escorted into a police vehicle.
No information about the victim was immediately available and the investigation into the incident is ongoing, police said.