Three people were killed when a vehicle careened into pedestrians near a public transportation stop in Los Angeles on Tuesday evening, officials said.
\n\nThe Los Angeles Police Department said that a white SUV struck at least five pedestrians at Lankershim and Chandler boulevards in the North Hollywood section of the city, where a Los Angeles Metro station is located, at around 5:55 p.m.
\n\nThree others were transported to the hospital in critical condition, the Los Angeles Fire Department said.
\n\nThe SUV driver, a man in his mid-60s, was among the injured, LAPD Capt. Warner Castillo said. The department’s drug-recognition experts were at the hospital to determine if the driver was impaired, he said.
\n\nPolice Tuesday night did not believe there was any other vehicle involved in the collision, Castillo said.
\n\nThe LAFD said the three people who were killed were beyond medical help when first responders arrived and were declared dead at the scene.
\n\nLAFD Assistant Chief Joe Everett told reporters that an agency battalion chief came across the crash at around 6 p.m., “and what he found was a car that had careened into a number of people on the sidewalk.”
\n\nEveryone who was struck was on the sidewalk…
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