Two-car accident on Scenic Drive sends three, including two children, to hospital

Modesto police and fire officials on Saturday afternoon were investigating a pin-in accident along Scenic Drive that sent a female driver and her two young passengers to the hospital.

Around 2 p.m. Saturday, authorities responded to a report of a two-car accident on Scenic Drive near Bodem Street. Crews arrived to find a white Nissan sport-utility vehicle that had been T-boned by a gray Dodge pickup truck and come to rest in front of Acacia Memorial Park.

According to Modesto Fire Department Capt. Chris Costa, fire crews needed to extricate the passengers of the SUV, who had become pinned in by damage to the passenger side of the vehicle.

Costa said the SUV was driven by a woman in her late 20s to early 30s, and her passengers were a boy around 9 to 10 years old and an infant under the age of 1. Costa said all three were taken to Memorial Medical Center and one of the juveniles was then airlifted to a children’s hospital. Their conditions were unknown Saturday afternoon, but Modesto police called the crash a “major-injury collision.”

The cause of the crash is also unknown. The SUV appears to have been traveling east on Scenic when it crossed into the path of the westbound pickup. Conditions were slick at the time, with sprinkles falling.

The Modesto Police Department is investigating the crash.

This story was originally published December 10, 2016 at 3:51 PM with the headline "Two-car accident on Scenic Drive sends three, including two children, to hospital."