Car drives into people walking on beach boardwalk; Driver flees

Update: Police say a driver who ran into a crowd at the Venice Beach boardwalk in Los Angeles fled from the scene and has not been taken into custody.
Police Officer Jorge Torres says the person drove away from the scene at about 6 pm on Saturday and had yet to be found more than two hours later.

Torres had no description of the car or the driver that left 12 people injured, two of them critically.
 

Authorities say at least a dozen people were injured, two of them critically, when a car drove into people walking along the Venice Beach boardwalk in Los Angeles.

Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey says multiple witnesses reported the driver appeared to be in control of the car as it drove into people at the popular stretch of galleries, restaurants and tattoo shops on a crowded Saturday afternoon.

Humphrey says firefighters are surveying a big crowd at the scene looking for anyone who was hurt.

He said 12 injured have been counted so far, two of them critically and two more seriously.

Humphrey says the car was still moving as it drove out of sight of firefighters, and it was not clear if the person had stopped.

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