Police are investigating a hit-and-run crash in Antioch that left two brothers, aged 12 and 13, dead Friday night.
The crash happened at around 11:30 p.m. near the intersection of West Sixth Street and G streets, according to the Antioch Police Department.
Police said the brothers were in a car heading westbound on Sixth Street when a black SUV going northbound on G Street slammed into them.
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First responders took both teens to the hospital, where they later died.
The people in the SUV ran from the crash, according to Lieutenant Rick Martin with Antioch police, who added that it’s still not clear who was driving the car that the boys were in.
Police said their father did show up at the crash scene Friday night, but it’s also not clear whether or not he was in the car.
Three people who live in the neighborhood told NBC Bay Area that drivers often zip through stop signs or speed far above posted speed limits.
“It’s very bad out here,” said resident Shayna Shapiro. “It’s very dangerous. And just — the speeding all the time down here.”
“It’s insanity,” said Lazaroy, who declined to give a last name. “You’re doing the same thing over and over again, and nothing is changing. So this doesn’t surprise me at all.”
Neighbors said they’d like to see measures added to several intersections throughout the city to make them safer.
“Roundabouts, the speed humps. You see other cities doing it,” Lazaroy said.
“I wish they’d do something about this intersection. It’s really bad …To read that it was two little boys,” Shapiro said. “I work with youth, so it just broke my heart.”
