Driver seriously injures woman while fleeing angry members of annual San Diego Zombie Walk
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A driver struck and seriously injured a woman while fleeing from angry members of the annual Zombie Walk held during Comic-Con, police said.
The 48-year-old driver and his family, who are all deaf, had waited for several minutes at a downtown intersection Saturday as a large crowd taking part in the walk, including some in zombie makeup, went by at around 5:30 p.m., Officer David Stafford said.
However, when small children in the car became frightened of the crowd, the driver rolled slowly forward to get through, Stafford said.
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Some crowd members became angry, surrounded the car, pounded on it, climbed on it and smashed the windshield, he said.
The driver then sped up to flee and sideswiped a 64-year-old woman, who fell under the car.
"Her arm was badly scraped. It's going to need surgery," he said.
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Some witnesses chased the car for several blocks until the driver spotted a police officer and stopped.
The driver was not arrested but the investigation continued, Stafford said.
A witness, Sean Foley, said that in his opinion the driver was at fault.
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After waiting about 10 minutes, the motorist started honking his horn and inching forward into a crowd that included children and babies in strollers, Foley said in an email to U-T San Diego (http://bit.ly/1roHVIa ).