Hit-run crash kills 2 boys, ages 5 and 10, in Concord

Two children were killed in a hit-and-run crash in Concord, and authorities were searching for the driver, the California Highway Patrol said Saturday.

The crash occurred around 11 p.m. Friday when a silver 2004 Infiniti veered off the exit from Highway 4 to Solano Way and onto the adjacent on-ramp, striking the back of a 2006 Durango, said Officer Brandon Correia, a spokesman for the CHP.

Two San Pablo boys — ages 5 and 10 — were ejected from the Durango and declared dead at the scene, he said. A 3-month-old boy was taken to UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland with major injuries. A 35-year-old woman who was driving the Durango was also taken to a local hospital with major injuries, Correia said.

Correia said witnesses told authorities that the driver of the Infiniti ditched the car and fled the scene on foot toward a drive-in movie theater across the highway. Witnesses said he had injuries to his head and face. Officers were unable to immediately find the driver.

Police identified Lemuel Sirvonn Wilson Jr., 35, as a person of interest in the incident and asked the public to call (707) 551-4100 if they knew his whereabouts.

The “collision was so severe the Durango was pushed sideways down to the edge of the on-ramp and the Infiniti was catapulted over the dividing fence” and landed a few feet from the front door of a local restaurant, Correia said.