Two women selling hot dogs were thrown into the air on Tuesday evening when a white SUV careened into pedestrians on a sidewalk in Los Angeles, according to NBC Los Angeles.
The crash occurred at around 5:55 p.m. at Lankershim and Chandler boulevards in the North Hollywood section of the city, near a Los Angeles Metro station, police said.
Three people were pronounced dead at the scene, and three others were transported to a hospital in critical condition, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. The driver of the SUV, a man in his mid-60s, was among the injured, Police Capt. Warner Castillo said.
Drug-recognition experts from the police department responded to the hospital to evaluate whether the driver was impaired, Castillo said. Investigators do not believe any other vehicle was involved in the collision.
Assistant Fire Chief Joe Everett told reporters that an agency battalion chief came across the crash at around 6 p.m., “and what he found was a car that had careened into a number of people on the sidewalk.”
Police Chief Jim McDonnell said that everyone who was struck by the vehicle was on the sidewalk. McDonnell added that the investigation remains in its early stages.
3 Dead After SUV Hits Street Vendors Near North Hollywood Metro Station LAPD says a white SUV left the roadway near the NoHo Metro station around 5:55 PM PT Tuesday, killing three street vendors on the sidewalk. The driver, a man in his 60s, is hospitalized, and detectives say…
Mayor Karen Bass said the victims included pedestrians and street vendors. “I’m heartbroken for the families of everyone impacted. We will continue to provide updates as more information becomes available,” Bass said.
Aerial video broadcast by NBC Los Angeles showed a white vehicle crashed against the side of the Metro station, which features escalators and stairs descending to the subway, with debris scattered across the surrounding area.
Today, an SUV drove onto a sidewalk near the North Hollywood Metro Station, striking a group of street vendors and pedestrians. Tragically, preliminary reports indicate that three people have lost their lives and others have been injured. First responders are on the scene, and…
“It was a huge boom,” Lincoln Brown, a witness walking away from the station at the time, told NBC Los Angeles.
“I was walking the opposite direction, but I heard a loud crash behind me,” Brown said. “I turn around, and I see a car that’s smashed up against the Metro over there.”
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