Car ignites on I-10, killing four
A sedan struck a bridge support pillar on the Santa Monica Freeway on Sunday morning and erupted into flames, killing four people inside and temporarily closing the road.
The passengers’ identities could not be immediately determined, said Brian Humphrey of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
In an unrelated accident, authorities were searching for the driver of a 1994 gray Acura Integra who fled the scene of a crash Sunday in southwest Los Angeles that left one of two passengers dead, police said.
It started about 2 a.m., when the Acura, traveling south on Normandie Avenue, struck a car stopped in the left-turn lane at 26th Street, said Sgt. Frank Feliciano of the Los Angeles Police Department’s South Traffic Division.
The Acura then sped away, struck a parked truck, and then spun counterclockwise and crashed into a nearby house, Feliciano said.
“The front passenger and front driver fled the scene, leaving the third passenger to basically die,” Feliciano said.
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-- J.P. Renaud
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