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Additional charges against San Luis Obispo hit-and-run driver

February 5, 2026

By KAREN VELIE

A 20-year-old Cal Poly student who allegedly crashed into two people in San Luis Obispo and then fled the scene in January is now facing additional charges including driving under the influence of alcohol.

Shortly after 9:30 p.m. on Jan. 8, a driver hit two people on the 100 block of Crandall Way as they were crossing the street. The driver of the vehicle did not stop and left the area.

Both victims sustained major but non-life-threatening injuries and were taken to a local hospital for treatment.

Eyewitnesses described the suspect car as a dark gray Tesla.

The next morning, officers located the suspect vehicle on the 3000 block of McCollum. The suspected driver, 20-year-old Ishan Pandhare, was arrested for two counts felony hit-and-run and booked into San Luis Obispo County Jail.

Pandhare’s current charges:

  • Driving under the influence of alcohol
  • Driving causing injury
  • Fleeing the scene of an accident
  • Two counts hit-and-run
  • Unsafe speed
  • Two counts great bodily injury

 


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Tesla should be able to observe its driver is drunk and self-drive by now. Step it up Elmo.


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Ishan ishterrible. Make daddy pay and the Call in ICE to remove this piece of shit.


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But hey, he’s an entitled foreign student whose parents pay a lot of money for him to attend/play at Cal Poly. No doubt they will find an expensive defense attorney to get these charges reduced to misdemeanors and he’ll get off with a fine at most.

I would be curious as to what his student visa allows regarding this kind of behavior. Too bad some other kid didn’t get his spot at Cal Poly. But they need that foreign tuition.


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Parents can’t be too happy… pay for college, pay for a car, now get to pay for a lawyer.


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“You’re in a heap of trouble boy”


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