One Dead, Six Injured in Hit-and-run Crash in Downtown LA
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (Dec. 2, 2024) – An 18-year-old man died and six others were injured in a hit-and-run crash at Broadway and Cesar Chavez Avenue in downtown Los Angeles.
Two people were critically injured in the collision at 12:40 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 30th, in front of a Starbucks store at 559 North Broadway, according to a report by the Los Angeles Police Department.
The teenager was traveling in a car headed northbound on Broadway when the vehicle collided due to unknown circumstances with a westbound car on Cesar Chavez Avenue.
Police and firefighters responded and located two people trapped in one of the vehicles after it overturned on a sidewalk. The second car wound up crashing on Cesar Chavez Avenue. One of the drivers exited their vehicle and fled.
Emergency crews from the Los Angeles Fire Department used hydraulic tools to free those people and all three were taken to a hospital where the 18-year-old man died. Family members who gathered at the crash scene told Los Angeles Times reporters the victim’s name was Isaac Arellanes Jr., and he was a student at Rio Hondo College. The family’s Gofundme page is seeking donations for his funeral costs.
The other two were listed in critical condition at the hospital.
Four others were treated for undisclosed injuries.
Investigators are working to determine fault for the fatal crash on Broadway in downtown LA.
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Source: LAFD, LAPD
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