Man arrested after hit-and-run, driving over 100 mph in Merced

MERCED, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A antheral has been arrested successful Merced County aft reaching speeds of implicit 100 mph erstwhile fleeing from police, the Merced County Sheriff's Office said.

Deputies accidental they attempted to contented a postulation halt connected a conveyance going implicit 100 mph adjacent Santa Fe Drive and Highway 59 successful Merced.

Sheriff's officials accidental the driver, Gerardo Silva-Hernandez, did not halt and continued driving astatine a dangerously precocious velocity into Merced. The lawman successful this lawsuit concisely mislaid show of the car but recovered it again going successful the other direction.

Despite reaching speeds of implicit 100 mph, the Sheriff's Office says the pursuit was ended owed to dense postulation and concerns for assemblage information adjacent Santa Fe Drive and Business Way Park. However, arsenic the lawman approached the intersection of Franklin Road and Santa Fe Drive, the suspect's car crashed into different vehicle, and Silva-Hernandez ran from the scene.

Deputies accidental they chased the fishy into a cornfield and took him into custody soon afterward. Silva-Hernandez was aboriginal booked into the Merced County Jail nether suspicion of failing to yield, fleeing the country of a postulation incident, and reckless driving.