About a dozen members of a sheriff’s training academy class who were on a run Wednesday in the south Whittier area were injured when they were hit by a vehicle.
The motorist was taken into police custody near the scene of the crash, which was reported about 6:30 a.m. near Mills Avenue and Trumball Street.
Paramedics sent up a triage area at the scene, and transported the injured for hospital treatment, many of them reportedly in critical condition.
The circumstances of the crash were under investigation.