( CNN ) -- A high-speed car accident in Florida has left the teenage son of wrestling star Hulk Hogan seriously injured and a companion in critical condition late Sunday , police said . TV footage shows a person injured in Nick Hogan 's car crash being treated in an ambulance . Nick Bollea , 17 , was the driver of a Toyota Supra that went out of control while driving at a `` high rate of speed '' about 7:30 p.m. Sunday , said Wayne Shelor , a spokesman for the Clearwater police in Clearwater , Florida . The car `` inexplicably left the roadway , '' jumped across a raised median and slammed into a palm tree just east of downtown , Shelor said . `` It destroyed the car , '' he said . Firefighters had to extract Bollea and his passenger , whose identity was not immediately released , from the wreckage . Both were flown to a hospital in nearby St. Petersburg , Florida , Shelor said . `` They 're both down there . Nick 's father is down there , '' he said . Watch Hulk Hogan on the scene with the mangled car » . Hulk Hogan , one of the top professional wrestlers of the 1980s and 1990s , is now featured in the VH1 reality show `` Hogan Knows Best . '' His son , wife Linda and daughter Brooke regularly appear on the show . One episode documented the son 's interest in a type of high-speed car racing known as `` drifting . '' Shelor said there was no evidence of drag racing or `` drifting '' in Sunday 's wreck . Police said Bollea -- known to viewers as `` Nick Hogan '' -- was not as seriously hurt as his passenger , who was listed as critical . Shelor said the wreck forced police to shut down mile-long Court Street , the main east-west road through central Clearwater , as they investigated the accident . `` I will have this road closed for a minimum of four hours , '' he said . `` It was a spectacular wreck . '' E-mail to a friend .
Police : Nick Bollea , 17 , was driving the Toyota Supra that went out of control . Bollea is known as Nick Hogan on reality show `` Hogan Knows Best '' Bollea 's companion in the car is in critical condition , police said . Incident happened in Clearwater , Florida , Sunday night .