The latest on a car plummeting from the Coronado Bridge onto a park, leaving 4 dead and at least 4 critically injured (all times local):

Authorities say four people were killed after an out-of-control pickup truck plunged off the San Diego-Coronado Bridge and plowed into a crowd gathered at a festival below Saturday. Richard Anthony Sepolio, 25, who was stationed at the naval base on Coronado Island across the bay from San Diego, was alone in the truck Saturday afternoon when he lost control and fell 60 feet onto a vendor’s booth at Chicano Park, California Highway Patrol Officer Jake Sanchez said. The driver, who was later arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, was in shock within seconds of the crash and asked witnesses who rushed to his aid to please contact his commander at a nearby military base. “I saw the truck coming at me, and if I hadn’t run, I’d be dead,” Jimenez told the newspaper. It’s horrific.”

Sanchez said the truck was traveling northbound on Interstate 5 when the driver lost control while exiting the freeway and crashed into a guardrail, sending the vehicle plummeting into the park below. “Innocent people were down here having a good time.”

Police and paramedics swarmed to the busy park when officers reported multiple casualties among the visitors. Four people died and nine people were injured, including the pickup driver, in the Saturday accident. One suffered major trauma, and seven others had minor to moderate injuries, said Lee Swanson, a spokesman for the city’s Fire-Rescue Department. Witnesses said the GMC pickup truck with Texas license plates landed on a vendor’s booth set up for La Raza Run, a motorcycle ride that ends with a celebration at the park and typically draws hundreds of participants. He said several officers who had stopped by to check on the crowd saw the pickup fly off the freeway. It was going so fast it flew over the stage and landed in front of the stage on a tent, a booth that was set up,” Chase Dameron told The San Diego Union-Tribune . He said the truck crushed a booth staffed with people selling T-shirts from the Wagon Wheel bar in Pico Rivera. It was like in slow motion,” he added, describing the scene as “instant chaos and panic.”

In addition to the four fatalities, nine people, including the driver, were injured but authorities did not disclose their conditions. One witnessed said it was “instant chaos and panic.”

The CHP immediately closed the I-5 north access to the bridge so investigators could do their work. People running crazy.”

Isaac Cardoza of Los Angeles was selling hats at a nearby booth nearby when the pickup came hurtling from the bridge. Up to 1,000 others, including families and children, were from the different neighborhoods in San Diego.
A pickup truck hurls off San Diego, California's Coronado Bridge, plummets some 60 feet, and crashes onto a park where hundreds of people had gathered for a motorcycle rally, killing four people in a vendor's booth and injuring eight others.