Anait Babakhanyan Killed in Sunland Car Accident on Foothill Boulevard

Woman, 76, Identified as Sunland Crash Victim

SUNLAND, Calif. (Feb. 20, 2025) – Anait Babakhanyan, 76, was identified as the woman who died in a Sunland car accident Tuesday afternoon on Foothill Boulevard between McVine Avenue and the Haines Canyon Channel.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff-Coroner identified the woman on its website.

Two others were injured in the two-vehicle collision around 4:30 p.m. on Feb. 18th, according to a press release by the Los Angeles Fire Department.

The driver of an SUV was traveling at high speed and bounced off five vehicles before crashing head-on with a Mercedes.

Firefighters responded to the 8200 block of Foothill Boulevard and located the elderly female passenger with major injuries trapped in the wreckage. The woman, later identified as Anait Babakhanyan, was freed from the vehicle but died at the scene.

Meanwhile, paramedics transported a 60-year-old man with major injuries and a 35-year-old woman with minor injuries to hospitals.

Investigators are working to determine fault for the Sunland accident on Foothill Boulevard.

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Source: LACSC