Car Crashes Into Office, Kills Accountant at Work
An office worker was killed Tuesday when an 80-year-old woman crashed her car into a Santa Monica office building at 2601 Ocean Park Blvd., police said.
The driver, Florence Cohen, suffered minor injuries. She was not cited, but an investigation was under way, said Sgt. James Hirt of the Santa Monica Police Department.
Her car made a “direct hit and went all the way into the office, where the man was working,” Hirt said. The dead man was identified by police as Nathan Laufbaum, 58, an accountant.
An unidentified woman who worked in the office received minor injuries, police said.
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