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Pregnant woman claims she was hurt as ‘Rampage’ Jackson allegedly fled police

Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, the light-heavyweight mixed martial artist who recently lost his title in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, injured a Huntington Beach woman and may have injured her unborn child when he drove down along the 55 freeway median, authorities and the woman said Wednesday.

The woman, 38-year-old Holli Griggs, was driving her 2007 Cadillac Escalade in the left lane Tuesday on the southbound 55 freeway just south of Bay Street when Jackson’s gray and green monster truck sideswiped her as it continued down the freeway at 45 mph, California Highway Patrol officer Jennifer Hink said. The freeway turns into Newport Boulevard just south of there and is typically clogged with traffic at about the time of the accident, 1:30 p.m. Jackson could face felony charges of a hit and run because Griggs was taken to the hospital for minor injuries, Hink said. In an e-mail sent to the Daily Pilot, Griggs said she and her unborn baby, 16 and a half weeks along, sustained unknown injuries.

Griggs said Jackson was acting “violent and reckless” and “had no regard for my life or anyone else’s for that matter.”

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Police say Jackson also sideswiped the silver 2003 Mercedez behind Griggs in traffic. That driver was not injured, Hink said.

Minutes after the hit and run, police spotted Jackson’s truck on Newport Boulevard with one flat tire weaving in and out of traffic while Jackson talked on the phone, police said. When a Costa Mesa traffic officer tried to pull him over, unaware of the hit and run back on the freeway, Jackson didn’t stop, hit another car and headed to the Balboa Peninsula, Lt. Paul Dondero said. He was eventually caught and booked on suspicion of evading police, reckless driving and a hit and run.

He posted $25,000 bail early Wednesday and was released from Costa Mesa jail.


JOSEPH SERNA may be reached at (714) 966-4619 or at [email protected].

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