A two-vehicle collision Sunday involving a Waymo near downtown Los Angeles sent two people to the hospital and left several others injured, according to first responders. <\/p>\n
The crash was reported at 5:45 a.m. near the intersection of Venice Boulevard and Toberman Street in the Pico-Union neighborhood. <\/p>\n
A Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson could not confirm the exact number of victims. A spokesperson from the Los Angeles Fire Department said at least two people were taken to local hospitals and at least one other was treated and released at the scene.<\/p>\n
Photos from the site of the accident show debris and clothing scattered around. <\/p>\n
The accident was initially reported as an auto-pedestrian collision, and the cause of the crash remains unclear. LAPD said at noon Sunday that the police investigation was ongoing.<\/p>\n
A Waymo spokesperson suggested the company\u2019s vehicle was not at fault. <\/p>\n
According to the company, the Waymo car was traveling east at 27 mph on Venice Boulevard when a blue sedan going 47-50 mph hit a pedestrian outside a crosswalk and then swerved into the opposite traffic lane, striking the self-driving car.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe safety of our riders and other road users is our top priority,\u201d spokesperson Ethan Teicher said. \u201cWe are coordinating with first responders and are grateful for their quick response.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A two-vehicle collision Sunday involving a Waymo near downtown Los Angeles sent two people to the hospital and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":961166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[386501,1582,276,11769,638,4903,30045,6478,2961,224,2444,5337,22803,33071,194976,386502,27184,386503,386500,17228],"class_list":["post-961165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-accident-show-debris","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-collision","tag-company","tag-crash","tag-first-responder","tag-hospital","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-losangeles","tag-mph","tag-multiple-people","tag-noon-sunday","tag-other-road-user","tag-spokesperson","tag-toberman-street","tag-venice-boulevard","tag-waymo"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116988394083312776","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961165","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=961165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/961166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}