One person died and another was injured Wednesday when a vehicle overturned on Highway 118 and landed on a lower street in Pacoima.
According to the Los Angeles Fire Department, the accident occurred around 4:40 p.m. The vehicle overturned on the freeway and came to a rest in the 10900 block of North Haddon Avenue, near Fielding Street.
One person was ejected from the vehicle and taken to a hospital in unknown condition. A second person was trapped in the crumpled vehicle and had to be extricated from the wreckage. That person was pronounced dead at the scene, LAFD said.
Information about the identity of the fatally injured person was not immediately available. The cause of the crash was still under investigation.
