Father accused of driving 100 mph, crashing into a ditch, and leaving injured family in N. Houston

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A 100-mph crash into a ditch in north Houston sent a family to the hospital on Tuesday night. That's everyone except the father, who Houston police say took off after the crash.

HPD says surveillance video shows a Ford Expedition speeding south down Yale Street near W. Tidwell Road. That's when a man in a Chevy Avalanche truck made a right turn from the inside lane to get into a gas station, cutting off the Expedition.

The two vehicles collided, flipping the Expedition with the family inside into the ditch.

From there, HPD says the driver of the Expedition ran off and had another car pick him up, leaving his wife and four children behind.

The oldest child was ejected during the crash. HPD said it appears everyone will survive, but they were taken to the hospital in serious and critical condition.

Meanwhile, investigators are still looking for the father who fled.

"I have no idea what's going through his mind at the time. I don't know if there was some other reason that he felt he needed to flee," Capt. Ryan Watson said. "The investigators here are following down leads and they are going to track that down and see if they can talk to him and get some answers, find out what's going on."

Investigators believe the father in the Expedition was driving around 100 mph at the time of the crash. The speed limit in the area is 45 mph.

Police said although it does appear the driver of the Avalanche made an illegal turn, with how fast the Expedition was going, any slight correction or contact was sure to end in catastrophe. Investigators said the driver of the Avalanche stayed at the scene and has been cooperating with investigators.

"No lights. I looked at my mirror before I was going to turn. I ain't see nothing. Next thing I know, I got ready to turn, BANG!" the driver of the Chevy, John McCoy, said. "They drive up and down the road like it's the freeway."

McCoy says he ended up in the guardrail and the family inside the expedition went airborne and crashed inside the ditch.

Eyewitnesses and McCoy tell us they sprang into action to help the family in the ditch, but the man driving the expedition left the scene, leaving his wife and four hurt children behind.

"Once I went down there to help, he came out of there. He trampled over the babies and the momma and all. She was bleeding everywhere. He took off running. He met another car down the street and got in the car and took off," McCoy said.

If you have any information about the crash or the man driving the Expedition you're urged to call the Houston Police Department.