Local News in Brief : Driver Killed as Car Plunges Into L.A. River
A27-year-old Tujunga man was killed late Saturday when he apparently lost control of his speeding car and plunged off the Ventura Freeway into the Los Angeles River near Griffith Park, a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol said Sunday.
Norman L. Taylor was killed when his car, which authorities estimate was traveling 70 m.p.h., hurdled off a Ventura Freeway overpass near Riverside Drive.
Taylor was thrown from the car when it hit the water, authorities said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
CHP officer Steve McGrath said Taylor was the only person in the car when the accident occurred at 11:45 p.m.
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