3 Sisters on Way to School Hit by Car
Three teenage sisters on their way to school were hit by a car driven by an 18-year-old man with a learner’s permit Friday in South-Central, police said. One sister suffered a broken leg and a skull fracture and the other two had cuts and bruises.
The girls, ages 13, 15 and 16, were crossing Broadway in a marked crosswalk near 67th Street about 7:15 a.m., said Officer Mike Partain, an LAPD spokesman.
Several cars slowed to a stop for them, Partain said, but a car driven by the 18-year-old Los Angeles man struck the sisters.
That part of the intersection did not have stop signs or traffic lights, officers said.
The driver had not been cited. “It was an unfortunate accident,” said Officer Jason Lee, an LAPD spokesman.
The driver’s mother, who has a driver’s license, was in the car at the time of the accident.
“It doesn’t appear that he was driving at an excessive speed,” Partain said.
The 15-year-old was taken to St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood and is in stable condition, Lee said. Her sisters were treated at Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center.
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