1 Killed, 4 Injured In High-Speed Head-On Crash In Reseda

RESEDA, CA — A speeding driver was killed in a head-on crash that sent him careening into several other vehicles, injuring four more people in Reseda Sunday night. One of the injured victims became trapped in the wreckage.

According to Margaret Stewart, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Fire Department, the crash was reported at 8:06 p.m. Sunday at t 7636 North Corbin Avenue. One man died at the scene. Firefighters freed another person from the wreckage in serious condition, and one other person was hospitalized. The remaining two victims were examined at the scene and did not require hospitalization, according to Stewart.

The crash occurred when a 25- to 30-year-old man headed northbound on Corbin at a high rate of speed crossed the double yellow lines, slamming head-on into a southbound vehicle, according to Officer F. Gonzalez of the Los Angeles Police Department's Operations Center. According to the LAPD, his vehicle then careened into a parked car, then another southbound vehicle and five more parked cars. In recent years, there have been numerous fatalities linked to street racing in West San Fernando Valley.

A witness told Fox11 that two racing vehicles had caused the wreckage, and a community resident told KTLA5 that street racing was a problem in the neighborhood.

Video from the scene showed a pickup surrounded by at least three mangled cars and another pickup on two wheels, backed onto a street pole.

City News Service and Patch Staffer Paige Austin contributed to this report.