CHULA VISTA, Calif. (KGTV) — Five people, including the driver, were injured after a car drove into a tent that was set up outside the emergency room at the Sharp Medical Center in Chula Vista Thursday afternoon, according to a Chula Vista Police Department spokesperson.
A public information officer for CVPD told a 10News photojournalist on the scene that a maroon car drove at a “high rate of speed” into the emergency entrance, where ambulances usually arrive to drop off patients at the emergency room, at around 1:30 p.m. Witnesses also told 10News on the scene that the car had entered the parking lot speeding.
CVPD arrested the driver, 33-year-old Sergio Jimenez, for suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs causing injury, which is a felony…