3 dead, 3 critically injured after vehicle smashes into pedestrians in Los Angeles

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Three people were killed and others were injured when a vehicle crashed into pedestrians near a public transportation stop in Los Angeles on Tuesday evening, officials said.

Three people were killed when a vehicle careened into pedestrians near a public transportation stop in Los Angeles on Tuesday evening, officials said.

The Los Angeles Police Department said that a white SUV struck at least five pedestrians at Lankershim and Chandler boulevards in the North Hollywood section of the city, where a Los Angeles Metro station is located, at around 5:55 p.m.

Three others were transported to the hospital in critical condition, the Los Angeles Fire Department said.

The SUV driver, a man in his mid-60s, was among the injured, LAPD Capt. Warner Castillo said. The department’s drug-recognition experts were at the hospital to determine if the driver was impaired, he said.

Police Tuesday night did not believe there was any other vehicle involved in the collision, Castillo said.

The LAFD said the three people who were killed were beyond medical help when first responders arrived and were declared dead at the scene.

LAFD Assistant 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.”

Everyone who was struck was on the sidewalk, LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell said, noting that the investigation was still in its early stages.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said that the people struck were pedestrians and vendors. She said her office is coordinating with city departments and authorities to determined the cause of the crash.

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