{"id":792651,"date":"2026-05-13T04:38:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/792651\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T04:38:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:38:22","slug":"multi-vehicle-crash-in-south-la-leaves-1-dead-2-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/792651\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi-vehicle crash in South LA leaves 1 dead, 2 injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Fox local;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Fox local\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/232C1E841BC0BB863E0E9B74B574D5BADEBDCEDD7912DF6C56EBCD799BAD61E9\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefill_w0_h40;quality_80;format_webp\/\"\/><\/a>Tue, May 12, 2026 at 10:34 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_fox_aggregated_articles_807\/96d12d770c24bc8e6509a972b2e45ed3.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Multi-vehicle crash in South LA leaves 1 dead, 2 injured<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Brief<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li class=\"list-disc\">\n<p>One person was killed, and two others were hospitalized following a crash in South LA&#8217;s Westmont neighborhood Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"list-disc\">\n<p>The collision happened at the intersection of West 96th Street and South Vermont Avenue.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"list-disc\">\n<p>The cause of the crash is under investigation.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>LOS ANGELES<\/strong> &#8211; A multi-vehicle crash in S<a data-ylk=\"slk:outh Los Angeles\u2019 Westmont neighborhood;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/los-angeles-county\/los-angeles\/south-los-angeles\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">outh Los Angeles\u2019 Westmont neighborhood<\/a> on Tuesday afternoon left one person dead and two others injured.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crash details<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The collision involved at least five vehicles and occurred at the intersection of West 96th Street and South Vermont Avenue, according to the California Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>Footage from the scene showed debris scattered across the intersection and several mangled vehicles. At least one vehicle appeared to have slammed into a tree.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Investigation underway<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The California Highway Patrol said it is still investigating the cause of the crash. Officials confirmed multiple vehicles were involved but have not released further details.<\/p>\n<p>A witness said one of the vehicles appeared to be speeding before the crash, though authorities have not confirmed that account.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Witness accounts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What they&#8217;re saying<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Witnesses said the crash could be heard from several blocks away.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was like a boom, and then it was like a loud noise,&#8221; said Brittany Joy, who added she saw two people being pulled from one of the vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then I just saw a boy laying there [who] got ejected, and he was already gone,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers have not confirmed whether the person described by the witness is the victim who died in the crash.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Source<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This story was written with information from the California Highway Patrol, along with witness interviews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tue, May 12, 2026 at 10:34 PM UTC Multi-vehicle crash in South LA leaves 1 dead, 2 injured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":792652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,22667,2961,224,5337,323556],"class_list":{"0":"post-792651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-california-highway-patrol","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-south-vermont-avenue"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116565424435780215","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}