A man died early Wednesday when a car struck his vehicle as he pulled out of a St. Paul driveway, according to police.
Police suspect the 19-year-old driver of the striking vehicle had been drinking and he was arrested, said Sgt. Mike Ernster, a St. Paul police spokesman. He was taken to Regions Hospital with non-life threatening injuries after the crash on the city’s West Side.
Jose Vasquez Guillen, of St. Paul, was booked into the Ramsey County jail Wednesday morning on suspicion of criminal vehicular homicide. A case had not been presented to prosecutors for charging consideration as of Wednesday.
Officers responded to a report of a two-vehicle crash at Page and Concord streets at 1:30 a.m. Wednesday.
A man was found trapped inside his Saturn, and firefighters responded to extricate him from the car and treat him, but he was pronounced dead at the scene, Ernster said.
The crash’s cause is under investigation, though preliminary information shows Vasquez Guillen was driving a Honda Civic southeast on Concord when he struck the man’s Saturn, which was pulling out of a driveway near Page Street to head northwest on Concord, Ernster said.
Police have not released the name of the man who died.
