South Los Angeles: Fatal Crash On 10 Freeway

At approximately 4:45 a.m. multiple vehicles collided on the 10 Freeway in Los Angeles, leaving one woman dead and three people injured. The fatal crash, which occurred near Crenshaw Boulevard, caused one vehicle to burst into flames. All westbound lanes were closed while the Los Angeles County coroner’s office and the California Highway Patrol investigated the accident, explains a California personal injury lawyer. 

Los Angeles County accounted for 667 of the 3,113 fatal and 52,229 of the 170,496 injury traffic collisions that occurred throughout the state in 2008, according to the California Highway Patrol’s Annual Report of Fatal and Injury Motor Vehicle Traffic Collisions. According to a recent study of U.S. Department of Transportation statistics by the Scripps Howard News Service, some of the nation’s most dangerous roads can be found in California, with the 10 Freeway being one of them.

All of us at Allen, Flatt, Ballidis, and Leslie would like to offer our condolences to the family of the woman killed in South Los Angeles this morning. We would also like to wish the three people injured a full recovery.

The Los Angeles Times originally reported this fatal crash on the 10 Freeway.

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