DUI Suspect Runs Pickup Into SUV, Flees

A man accused of drunken driving plowed his pickup truck into a full-size sport utility vehicle at a Coachella intersection and drove off, a sheriff's sergeant said Sunday.

The driver of a Toyota Tundra pickup truck, Sagrado Orellana, 37, of Coachella, traveled west on Avenue 52, and allegedly failed to yield while making a turn and crashed into a GMC Yukon at Jennifer Way, Riverside County sheriff's Sgt. Jeronimo Contreras said.

Orellana allegedly fled the scene of the crash that was reported shortly before 6 p.m. Saturday. Deputies later found Orellana at a home on Jennifer Way and arrested him for suspicion of hit and run driving and drunken driving, Contreras said.

No one was hurt during the crash but Orellana was taken to a hospital as a precaution, Contreras said. Orellana was released from custody today when he posted $2,500 bail, jail records showed.

—City News Service