One person is dead and three others are injured after a multi-vehicle crash in Hawthorne Sunday morning, police said.
The crash happened at Imperial Highway and Inglewood Avenue at around 11:45 a.m., according to the Hawthorne Police Department. When officers arrived, they found four damaged vehicles and multiple people with injuries.
Police say personnel with the Los Angeles County Fire Department had to extricate two people from one of the vehicles.
Four people, including two in “extremely critical condition,” were taken to the hospital, where one of them died, police said. The deceased individual’s identity has not been released.
The department’s Traffic Bureau is investigating the cause of the crash.
Anyone with information or video footage of the crash are asked to call the Traffic Bureau at 310-349-2701.