2 Killed, 2 Badly Hurt as Car Veers Off Freeway

Two men died and a woman and a teenage boy were critically injured early Monday when their car veered off a freeway ramp and fell 50 feet to the street below, authorities said.

The car was traveling from the northbound Golden Gate Freeway to the eastbound Ronald Reagan Freeway at 4:50 a.m. when it swerved, authorities said. It landed on its roof near Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Paxton Street.

“There was some pretty good speed there,” said California Highway Patrol Officer Vincent Bell, although investigators have yet to determine how fast the car was traveling.

The driver, a 51-year-old man, and the front-seat passenger, a man in his mid-20s, died, Bell said. The woman, in her 30s, and the boy, 15, were expected to survive. Names were withheld until relatives could be notified.