Speeding Driver Dies in Plunge From Freeway

A 53-year-old North Hollywood man was killed Sunday night when his speeding car hit a curb, shot into the air and fell from an elevated section of the Hollywood Freeway to a park below, the California Highway Patrol said Monday.

Witnesses said the man, whose name was withheld pending notification of relatives, was driving south at more than 100 m.p.h. when the accident occurred north of the Oxnard Street off-ramp in North Hollywood about 8:35 p.m., CHP Officer Monty Keifer said.

The driver was ejected from the 1977 Chevrolet Camaro, which landed upside down in a park at Debby Street and Laurel Grove Avenue, Keifer said. He was pronounced dead at the scene of head and chest injuries, Officer Kenneth Rosenberg said.

Investigators did not know why the man, who was alone, was traveling so fast, Keifer said.