Police on Lookout for Hit and Run Suspect

The is on the lookout for a male suspect who fled on foot after crashing a reportedly stolen vehicle into the center divide on San Tomas Expressway near South Winchester Boulevard.

At around 1:20 p.m. today, the suspect, described only as a "young-looking Hispanic male" wearing black pants and a grey t-shirt by Sgt. Bruce Hushbeck of the CPD, drove the car into the center divide and "bailed" immediately after.

"He crashed, he fled and he was last seen fleeing northbound [away] from the accident," Hushbeck said.

Neither the California Highway Patrol nor the CPD were in pursuit of the vehicle as the suspect drove it, he added. The stolen vehicle is a Honda Civic, though Hushbeck said he did not know what year.

Hushbeck said a CPD officer saw the suspect as he fled on foot at Camden Avenue and Winchester Boulevard but did not get a good look at his face. Officers pursued the suspect on foot but lost track of him after he hopped a fence near the , Hushbeck said. 

There was little to no damage to the vehicle, which was reported stolen out of San Jose, Hushbeck said. No one was injured and no other vehicles were damaged during the crash.

"This is not high up on our priority list right now," Hushbeck said of finding the culprit. "We really don't have a lot of leads to give us an idea of where he is."

Hushbeck said that while stolen vehicles aren't crashed in the city frequently, he has seen a rise in stolen car incidents as of late.

"They have been on the rise a little bit," he said. "Usually they are late 1990s Hondas."