A major injury car accident Sunday night in Los Altos delayed the arrival of some Festival of Lights Parade participants. The collision occurred at the intersection of Foothill Expressway and Main Street around 5:30 p.m. The cars involved in the accident were seen being towed away just before the parade was set to begin at 7 p.m. The Los Altos Police Department expected a police report to be filed after the Town Crier’s press deadline on Monday.

Another accident occurred this past holiday weekend on the Los Altos-Mountain View border. Last Friday afternoon, an erratic driver rear-ended a car stopped at a traffic light in the westbound lane of El Camino Real at the El Monte Avenue intersection. The driver fled the scene and failed to yield to Mountain View police. He subsequently drove the vehicle across the El Camino divider into incoming traffic, hitting a fire hydrant and shearing a tree in half on the front lawn of a Los Altos office complex near the Ortega Avenue intersection.

The driver was taken to the hospital for medical treatment and evaluation, said Jim Bennett, public information officer for the Mountain View Police Department.