Bridgeport, CT : Seymour man killed after a car crash at Barnum Avenue and Pembroke Street Monday afternoon, April 18, 2016

One man was killed and another was questioned by police after a car crash at Barnum Avenue and Pembroke Street Monday afternoon.

City officials said the crash took place at around 4:30 p.m., moments after police attempted to stop a speeding motorist, who then plowed into another vehicle.

Av Harris, a spokesman for Mayor Joe Ganim, said 20-year-old Geraldo Maldonado, of Bridgeport, was driving south in a Saturn on Pembroke Street, “very fast,” and that “Bridgeport Police had just turned on the flashing lights and were attempting to pull the car over.”

Police Chief Armando Perez said officers had seen Maldonado blow through a number of intersections without stopping where required before before the police pursuit began.
Harris said the Saturn plowed into a Chevrolet Trailblazer, flipping the westbound SUV over and launching the driver, 22-year-old David Anthony Anderson of Seymour, out of the vehicle. Police and firefighters rushed to the scene but Anderson died of his injuries.

Perez said Anderson had not been wearing a seatbelt and sustained massive head injuries.
“It was a tragic thing — it was all speed,” the chief said.

Maldonado ran from the scene, Perez said, but was tracked and caught with the help of police dogs. Perez said police first throught Maldonado had a passenger with him at the time of the crash, because aribags on both sides of the Saturn deployed. But police later determined Maldonado had been alone, the chief said.

Maldonado “admitted he was the driver, (and that) he was high on whatever substance he was on,” Perez said. “He’s cooperating.”

He was treated and released from Bridgeport Hospital for unspecified injuries, Harris said. While an investigation was ongoing Tuesday, no charges had been filed, and Maldonado was not being held by police.

“We know who is he; he lives up in the North End of the city,” Perez said. “He’s known to us — he’s not a flight risk.”

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Bridgeport crash kills Seymour man