A 13-year-old girl is in critical condition after the driver of the car she was riding in fled a traffic stop and crashed Wednesday night.
According to Lake Worth Police, officers tried to stop a driver for an equipment violation but the driver refused to pull over. About 60 seconds into a pursuit, the driver hit a curb along the 2900 block of Northwest Centre Drive and overturned in a field.
Three occupants of the vehicle were ejected in the crash. All four occupants were hospitalized in either serious or critical condition.
18-year-old Xavier Lopez was one of them and spoke to us from his hospital bed.
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"All I remember was my friends picked me up to go eat at IHOP," Lopez said.
He admits the driver didn't stop.
"The car flipped and everything went black and we were out the car," Lopez said.
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Lake Worth Police said they found cocaine, black tar heroin, drug paraphernalia and two pistols in the crashed vehicle.
Police identified the occupants as the juvenile girl, a 16-year-old juvenile boy, 28-year-old Eric Conde and 18-year-old Xavier Lopez.
"All the details aren't adding up," Eric Conde's mother Juanita Flores said.
She has questions about his injuries.
"My son told me that the police was being very rough with him and that they were kicking on his amputated, he's an amputee," Flores said.
She said Conde was ejected from the car in the crash and will have to have several surgeries.
"His hip is broke," Flores said. "His spine is broke. His breastbone is broke. His arm is broke."
Flores said she knows there was some wrongdoing done by some in the car and she's just hoping the investigation holds the right people accountable.
"That's all I want is the truth," Flores said. "Whoever is held responsible, they're responsible. But I just want the truth to come out."
As of noon Thursday, the girl remained hospitalized in critical condition, the juvenile boy had been treated and released and Conde and Lopez were in serious, but stable condition.
Conde, police said, was wanted for engaging in criminal activity and Lopez was wanted for assault causing injury (family violence) out of Austin County. It's not clear if Lopez or Conde have obtained attorneys.
Police said criminal charges are expected, though none had been filed as of this writing. Police said the possibility of a sexual assault is also being investigated.
