I tell professional athletes not to drink and drive all the time but apparently they also need to pass that info onto their friends; make sure your friends don’t drink and drive either, especially with your car. Lakers’ forward Jordan Hill found himself in quite the predicament when a friend of his crashed his Bentley into an apartment building. Read more after the jump.
A Bentley registered under the name of Jordan Hill crashed into an apartment building in Marina Del Rey early Saturday morning.
California Highway Patrol said Hill was not in the vehicle when it crashed.
The driver of the vehicle, 26-year-old Michael Lacey, was arrested on DUI charges. There was a female passenger who was not arrested.
The accident happened around 2:21 a.m. in the 13900 block of Marquesas Way.
The vehicle was totaled when it hit the luxury apartment.
L.A. County Fire treated at least one patient on the scene but no one was transported to the hospital.
Neighbors said they saw blood in the complex.
“I heard a loud crash and then a splash,” one neighbor said. “I guess the driver ran away. There was blood all over the gate that he jumped over.”
Lacey is also a basketball player, but not a professional one.
Not really sure where Lacey thought he was going to run to, injured and bleeding. Someone clearly had to take the rap for this and it definitely wouldn’t be Hill with his career on the line. Hill however will definitely have to think twice about who he keeps in his camp and lets use such an expensive car. Luckily no one in the apartment complex was injured.
