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1 dead, 3 injured in wrong-way crash on 10 Freeway; traffic snarled through downtown L.A.

Aerial view of police at a crash scene on a freeway
One person was killed and three others were hospitalized in a wrong-way crash on the eastbound 10 Freeway early Thursday in downtown Los Angeles, according to the California Highway Patrol.
(KTLA-TV Channel 5)
Los Angeles Times staffer Noah Goldberg
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One person was killed and three others were hospitalized after a wrong-way driver crashed into another vehicle on the eastbound 10 Freeway early Thursday in downtown Los Angeles, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Drivers had called to report a vehicle traveling the wrong way on the 10 before the early morning crash, which occurred around 4:40 a.m. near Santa Fe Avenue, the CHP said.

MALIBU, CA - OCTOBER 18, 2023 - Youth mourn after leaving flowers near the scene where four women were killed in a multi-vehicle crash along the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu on October 18, 2023. A 22-year-old man was arrested after plowing into the pedestrians and parked cars. The crash was reported at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 21600 block of Pacific Coast Highway where they found the victims of the crash, along with the severely damaged vehicles. The crash began when the suspect lost control of his BMW and slammed into multiple parked cars before ricocheting and fatally striking the women, who were standing on the side of the road. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

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The condition of the three people who were hospitalized is not yet known.

At 8:30 a.m., four of the five lanes of the eastbound 10 Freeway were still closed. Traffic was backed up several miles to Arlington Avenue, with delays up to an hour expected, according to a SigAlert issued after the crash.

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Noah Goldberg covers breaking news for the Los Angeles Times. He worked previously in New York City as the Brooklyn courts reporter for the New York Daily News, covering major criminal trials as well as working on enterprise stories. Before that, he was the criminal justice reporter for the Brooklyn Eagle.

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