WINNETKA, LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Three men were killed and at least six others were injured in a multi-vehicle crash in Winnetka Sunday night, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
LAFD firefighters responded to the three-car crash in the 19700 block of Vanowen Street around 9 p.m.
Three people died at the scene, the LAFD said. Six other patients suffered potentially serious injuries, but all are in stable condition. However, Los Angeles police said a total of seven were injured.
LAFD said two men who died were in their 30s and the third man who died in the crash was 25 years old. Their names are not disclosed.
Home video recorded the crash. Footage shows a vehicle traveling at high speed swerving into oncoming lanes and hitting two cars.
Andrew Niemann of the Los Angeles Police Department told Eyewitness News that a dark-colored Ford Explorer was traveling east on Vanowen and due to its speed, the driver lost control when the car went over a gap in the road at Corbin Avenue.
“The speed limit is 35. So, based on the speed, this Explorer lost control, actually traveling in the westbound lanes and collided with a Toyota Tacoma truck with four occupants,” Nieman said. “This caused the Ford Explorer to start overturning. It then collided with another vehicle, an Audi.’
Three of the four people in the Ford Explorer were ejected and killed. The fourth person, the only one wearing a seat belt, survived the crash with minor injuries, Niemann said.
The four occupants of the truck were taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Two other people involved in the crash — a pregnant woman and her husband — were transported as a precaution, Niemann said.
Further details about the crash were not available.
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