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4 killed when truck flies off bridge into crowded park

Police stand near the pickup truck that landed at Chicano Park after it flew off a ramp to the San Diego Coronado Bridge in San Diego on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016. Four people were killed and nine were injured on Saturday after an out-of-control pickup truck plunged off the San Diego-Coronado Bridge and plowed into crowd gathered at a festival below, authorities said. (Hayne Palmour IV/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP)
Police stand near the pickup truck that landed at Chicano Park after it flew off a ramp to the San Diego Coronado Bridge in San Diego on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016. Four people were killed and nine were injured on Saturday after an out-of-control pickup truck plunged off the San Diego-Coronado Bridge and plowed into crowd gathered at a festival below, authorities said. (Hayne Palmour IV/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP)
By Jared Leone
Oct 16, 2016

A truck launched through a guardrail and fell nearly 60 feet from a highway overpass into a crowded San Diego park Saturday afternoon, killing at least four people police said.

Police said several others were injured at Chicano Park, where a group of about 100 people were celebrating the La Raza Run motorcycle festival, according to KNSD.

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The driver is alive but was hospitalized with critical injuries. He also was arrested and charged on suspicion of DUI.

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