One Dead, Four Critically Injured In LA Crash On 110 Freeway

Los Angeles CA

26 December, 2020

2:26 PM

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LOS ANGELES, CA — One person died and four others were critically injured early Saturday morning after a car collided with a guardrail on a transition road from the 110 Freeway in the Harbor Gateway area of Los Angeles, authorities said. The crash was reported around 2 a.m. on the transition road from the southbound 110 Freeway to 190th Street and the San Diego 405 Freeway, according to the California Highway Patrol. A 2019 Honda was in the number one lane of the transition road when it collided with the guardrail, the CHP said. Los Angeles Unified School District police told the CHP the vehicle caught fire. The critically injured victims were a 35-year-old man, a 26-year-old woman, a 31-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman. Firefighters and paramedics dispatched to the scene rushed the four patients to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, the CHP said. The fatally injured victim, who was pronounced dead at the scene, was a 39-year-old man and a Carson resident, the CHP said. He was driving the 2019 Honda, officials said. The Carson man's name will be released pending notification of next of kin, according to the Los Angeles County coroner's office. The City News Service and Patch staffer Kat Schuster contributed to this report.