UPDATED: San Bernardino man accused of DUI, hit-and-run following West Covina crash

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WEST COVINA >> A San Bernardino man is accused of being drunk when he ran through a red light at a major West Covina intersection and crashed into another car, injuring two people late Tuesday, officials said.
Police jailed Raymond Simon Alvarado, 21, on suspicion of felony drunken driving and felony hit-and-run following the 9:15 p.m. crash at Azusa and Rowland avenues, West Covina police spokesman Rudy Lopez said in a written statement.
“Alvarado had been seen driving the Honda Civic westbound on Rowland Avenue at a high rate of speed, failing to stop for red traffic signals at the intersections of Rowland (and) Hollenbeck and Rowland (and) Azusa,” Lopez said.
As Alvarado went through the intersection of Rowland and Azusa avenues, his car slammed into an Acura Integra which had been making a left turn from northbound Azusa Avenue to Eastbound Rowland Avenue on a green signal, police said.
Paramedics took a man who was at the wheel of the Acura and a woman who was riding as his passenger to a hospital with injuries police initially described as not believed to be life-threatening.
But the woman’s condition worsened at the hospital, where she was listed in critical condition, Lt. Dennis Patton said.
Alvarado tried to flee the crash scene on foot, but a witness pointed him out as the driver of the Honda, Lopez said.
Police took Alvarado to a hospital for examination before booking him into jail, officials said.
According to Los Angeles County records, Alvarado was being held in lieu of $100,000 bail at the Twin Towers Correction Facility in Los Angeles pending a scheduled arraignment Monday in Pomona Superior Court, officials said.
Police planned to request Alvarado’s bail be increased to $210,000 at Monday’s hearing, Patton said.

PHOTO: Raymond Simon Alvarado, 21, of San Bernardino, is accused of drunken driving and hit-and-run in connection with an injury crash in West Covina on Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2014. (Courtesy of the West Covina Police Department)

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