Car ploughs into pedestrians in Los Angeles, killing 3
Three people are dead and three others are in critical condition after an SUV crashed into people on the footpath next to a metro station in North Hollywood.
A vehicle has ploughed into a group of pedestrians in the North Hollywood district of Los Angeles, killing at least three people and leaving three others critically injured.
There were no official details immediately available on the circumstances of the incident, which occurred shortly before 6pm on Tuesday (1pm Wednesday AEDT).
“We don’t know if it was done intentionally, if it was done by accident,” LAPD Captain Warner Castillo said at a news conference.
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The driver, whose name has not been released, is in his early 60’s and officials are doing an exam to check if he was under the influence, Castillo said.
Mayor Karen Bass said the victims included street vendors and pedestrians.
“I’m heartbroken for the families of everyone impacted,” she said in a post on X.
Local television station KCAL-TV, a CBS News affiliate, reported that a car crashed into a food stand near a bus stop along a major thoroughfare, Lankershim Boulevard, that runs through the busy NoHo commercial and arts district in the city’s San Fernando Valley.
Aerial news video footage of the scene from KCAL showed a white-coloured, partially crumpled small SUV that appeared to have run up onto the sidewalk under a blue canopy and into the side of a mass-transit shelter structure.
with AP
