1 killed when car veers off LA roadway into homeless encampment
LOS ANGELES -- One person was killed and three others were injured Tuesday after a car that had been traveling along the southbound 405 freeway in Van Nuys left the roadway and crashed into a homeless encampment, authorities said, CBS Los Angeles reports.
The accident took place just before 6:15 p.m. Tuesday on the southbound Interstate 405 at Sherman Way in Van Nuys.
Fire crews responding to an accident just off the freeway near Sherman Way found one person trapped beneath the car and several others injured, the Los Angeles Fire Department said. The Fire Department says one person was crushed and died at the scene.
The injured, including the driver, were taken to hospitals in conditions ranging from fair to critical, the Fire Department said. The person who died suffered massive crush injuries from the weight and impact of the car, authorities said.
The cause of the accident is being investigated.