PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A car crashed into an apartment building at 50th and Walnut streets in West Philadelphia early Monday morning, sending one person to the hospital.
It happened around 3:30 a.m. Police said a blue Tesla struck a police cruiser at 49th and Spruce streets, then fled. About four blocks away, at 50th and Walnut streets, the Tesla hit a white sedan, police said, and ultimately crashed into a first-floor apartment.
The front half of the Tesla went through the window, exposing the living room of the apartment.
Scarlett Delorme lives in the apartment building. She was sleeping in a basement bedroom right below where the car crashed.
“We just heard a loud crash, like crazy crash, and we’re like, oh my God, what happened? We jumped up and then we could hear shuffling in the room. So I was like, oh my God, someone is in the house,” she said. “I opened that door — this car was in the window in the wall there, and it was smoking still.”
Her photography studio is on the first floor, where the Tesla crashed.
Afterward, Delorme and her boyfriend found a man bleeding heavily from his hand. He was injured in the second crash and taken to the hospital. His condition is unknown at this time.
Police said the driver of the Tesla fled on foot after the crash.
The driver first hit a police cruiser and another car, investigators say
The driver first hit a police cruiser and another car, investigators say
