Traffic & Transit
Crash Traps Driver In Car, Shuts Down Lane Of Sunset Boulevard
A crash in the Pacific Palisades trapped a driver in their car until LAFD paramedics were able to pry them out.
PACIFIC PALISADES, CA — One person was hospitalized after a Monday morning wreck along West Sunset Boulevard in the Pacific Palisades, the LAFD reports. An undescribed car crashed into a pole at 7 a.m. Monday on the 13000 block of West Sunset Boulevard. The driver was trapped inside the vehicle until LAFD personnel used hydraulic prying tools to disassemble the dashboard and free the patient. LAFD paramedics then rushed the patient to a regional trauma center.
One or more lanes from Sunset Boulevard were closed after the accident, according to LAFD spokesperson Brian Humphrey.
The West LA Community Police Station was unavailable for comment.
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