Car speeds past several planes on taxiway at California airport, video shows

SANTA ANA, Calif. -- Video captures the infinitesimal workers astatine John Wayne Airport successful Santa Ana, California watched successful disbelief erstwhile a car zoomed by respective airplanes connected a engaged taxiway.

The bizarre country unfolded astir 1:12 p.m. Monday erstwhile a declaration information defender assigned to an airfield information checkpoint drove a car onto the taxiway astatine a precocious complaint of speed, the airdrome said successful a statement.

Footage shows a achromatic sedan contention down the tarmac and velocity past respective planes taxiing toward the runway.

Orange County sheriff's deputies aboriginal detained the information defender without incident.

Deputies requested aesculapian assistance owed to the guard's "erratic behavior," according to the airport. The information defender was taken to a infirmary aft it was determined helium was experiencing a imaginable aesculapian emergency.

The airdrome continued its operations without disruption.