Police pursuit ends in crash that kills one woman, injures others

Police pursuit ends in crash that kills one woman, injures others

After leading Los Angeles police on a car chase Saturday afternoon that left a driver dead and two others injured in

the San Fernando Valley, a suspect has been taken into custody.

According to LAPD Officer Mike Lopez, officers discovered a stolen white Mercedes close to the intersection of

Vanowen Street and Corbin Avenue in Winnetka at approximately 1:45 p.m. Lopez claimed that while the police

pursued the vehicle, the Mercedes’s driver sped off, starting a chase.

According to police, the driver hit a white Tesla travelling west on Saticoy Street as he ran away. Two other vehicles

were then struck by the Tesla.

The suspect, a 42-year-old man, was taken into custody and transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening

injuries, police said. The Tesla driver, a 40-year-old woman, was pronounced dead at the scene. Another woman in a

car hit by the Tesla was treated at the scene, and a man from a separate car was taken to a hospital with non-life-

threatening injuries.

The suspect’s name has not yet been made public by the police, but they promised to do so after he was charged.

According to LAPD data released last year, onlookers have been involved in over half of the injuries or fatalities

sustained during police pursuits in Los Angeles since 2018. A quarter (1,032) of the at least 4,203 pursuits that

LAPD officers have been involved in since 2018 have ended in a wreck that resulted in injuries or fatalities, according

to data provided to the Board of Police Commissioners.

Nine persons were killed and 496 injured in over half of the injury crashes that involved non-chasers. In contrast, the report states that during same time, 462 escaping suspects were hurt, five of them died.

Officers may start a pursuit in response to a suspected criminal or for specific misdemeanours, like careless or

intoxicated driving, according to LAPD regulation.

Brittny Mejia works for the Los Angeles Times as a Metro reporter covering federal courts. She previously authored

narrative works that focused heavily on the Latino population and other groups that contribute to California’s and

Los Angeles’ diversity. For her investigation with colleague Jack Dolan, which revealed flaws in Los Angeles County’s

safety-net healthcare system that led to months-long wait times for patients—some of whom passed away before

scheduling appointments with specialists—Mejia was a 2021 Pulitzer Prize finalist in local reporting. In 2014, she

began working at The Times.

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