Vehicle plunges off Malibu road, killing one
A vehicle plunged about 100 feet over the side of a road in Malibu on Tuesday, killing one person and injuring another, authorities said.
The L.A. County Fire Department was alerted to the incident, which occurred near Stunt and Schueren roads just before 4 p.m.
In a Twitter post, officials said that one person was found dead at the scene, and a second person was being taken to a hospital “in severe distress.”
Melanie Flores, a supervising dispatcher with the department, said it was not clear why the incident occurred.
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Leila Miller is a former foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times based in Mexico City. She joined the newsroom in 2018, where she spent several years covering criminal justice, including the Luz del Mundo sex abuse case, and was part of the team that was a 2020 Pulitzer Prize finalist for its coverage of the Conception boat fire off the Channel Islands. She moved to Mexico in 2021 and was a 2023 Livingston finalist for an investigation on how a centuries-old forensic test has been sending mothers in Latin America to prison for killing their newborns. Born in Argentina but raised in Los Angeles, Miller is a graduate of Oberlin College and Columbia University’s School of Journalism.
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