Five individuals, including a pregnant woman and an infant, lost their life in a horrible multi-car collision on Thursday, 4 July, according to Windsor Hills, Los Angeles, authorities. Additionally, eight people were hurt as a result of the crash at La Brea and Slauson Avenues.
According to California Highway Patrol officials, the blaze-related tragedy claimed the lives of three people, including a pregnant mother and a 3-year-old toddler.
Officer Franco Pepi, a CHP spokeswoman, claimed that the unborn child of the pregnant woman had been listed as the fifth fatality due to “special circumstances.”
Pepi added that later on Thursday, when the cars were on fire, officials found another person’s remains inside. The person’s age and gender have not yet been verified.
Regarding the other eight victims of the incident, police drove them and provided medical care at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Teenagers made up six of those injured, and one of them had serious injuries.
Around 1:40 pm, the crash was captured on surveillance video in the Los Angeles area of Windsor Hills
The distance from downtown Los Angeles to this was 10 miles. The CHP claims that at Slauson and La Brea, a grey Mercedes-Benz ran a red light and collided with a light pole before coming to rest. Almost six vehicles were hit, according to sources, and several of them took fire.
Debra Jackson, the driver of the Mercedes, was taken to a nearby hospital in Los Angeles despite escaping the incident with serious injuries. She gave the situation’s details:
Suddenly, there was a loud explosion, but when Jackson tried to turn back, the flames simply covered everyone. “They instructed me to get out of my car since I was attempting to exit it in order to go to the petrol station when it was completely engulfed in flames. I then jumped out of my car and left it parked where it was.”
Veronica Esquivel, a woman, saw the incident happen while filling up at a nearby gas station. She uttered:
“After the fire explosion and all the impact noises, I saw metal and other objects flying through the air. I therefore just hid behind the pump.”
After the collision, a fire conflagration is said to have burned the area to the ground. Smoke was seen billowing in the distance.
A CHP spokesperson stated that the Mercedes was moving “at excessive speed” when it ran a red light while heading south on La Brea. The incident’s precise cause was not immediately clear.