A dad crashed his car while driving with his wife and kids before he ran off ‘trampling’ over them as he escaped, witnesses said.
The unknown man was speeding and turned into a gas station at 100mph before flipping the SUV on Yale Street in north Houston on Tuesday night.
CCTV footage shows another car making a right turn onto the forecourt before cutting the car off.
The driver of the other car said the driver then got out, leaving five members of his family behind.
The other driver, John McCoy told KTRK:’No lights. I looked at my mirror before I was going to turn.
‘I ain’t see nothing. Next thing I know, I got ready to turn, bang!
‘They drive up and down the road like it’s the freeway.’
He added: ‘Once I went down there to help, he came out of there. He trampled over the babies and the momma and all.’
‘She was bleeding everywhere. He took off running. He met another car down the street and got in the car and took off.’
All victims were taken to a nearby hospital in serious or critical condition. Emergency services said they are all expected to survive.
The father had another car pick him up, police said, and remains at large.
Police Captain Ryan Watson said: ‘I have no idea what’s going through his mind at the time.
‘I don’t know if there was some other reason that he felt he needed to flee.’
‘The investigators here are following down leads and they are going to track that down and see if they can talk to him and get some answers, find out what’s going on.’
Anyone with information on the crash and dad is urged to contact the police department.
It happened nearly six years after a South Carolina father left his one-year-old daughter to die in a burning car while he tried to escape from police.
