A high-speed police chase led to a fiery crash Saturday night when a car carrying four people slammed into the side of a Culver City home, authorities said.
Video from the crash scene shows a red SUV drive through a guardrail on Sawtelle Boulevard and into the side of the house. Its rear wheels remained 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 in the house either.
One person was arrested and a gun was found on the ground nearby, according to Larsen.
The red Dodge Durango was spotted by police as the driver failed to yield around 9:40 p.m. The police chase quickly followed on the northbound 405 Freeway near the Sepulveda Boulevard exit.
According to the CHP, the SUV was traveling on the shoulder of the highway.
The driver exited the highway, then re-entered southbound, eventually exiting onto Culver Boulevard in Culver City, where he crashed into the side of the house.
Larsen said the SUV took “about 300 feet of guardrail” with it.
The off-ramp was then closed 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 they saw the CHP squad car’s “red and blue lights” and the driver “decided to run for it.”
Larsen said the collision caused significant damage to the home.
