The California Highway Patrol has reportedly arrested a driver seen on video speeding through a Los Angeles intersection and causing a fiery multi-car crash that left six people dead, including an infant and a pregnant woman, and her unborn fetus.
The driver of the dark Mercedes-Benz in Thursday afternoon’s incident, identified by police as a woman in her 40s who is a nurse, now faces charges of involuntary manslaughter and gross negligence, according to Fox LA.
Witnesses at the scene in the Windsor Hills area of West Los Angeles told Fox News that the crash caused a huge explosion that sounded like a bomb and a child thrown from a vehicle landed at a gas station.
“A lady picked up the baby that was thrown out, she was running into the store with the child, but you could tell there was no life there,” Alphonso Word said.
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Fire is seen at an intersection in Los Angeles on Thursday, August 4, immediately after a car collided with another at high speed. (Fox News/RMG News)
“I think the devastating thing was that you heard the scream. I don’t know if it was one of the victims in the car burning or what,” he added.
Another witness who was about two to three cars behind the crash site told Fox News he felt lucky to be alive and saw victims screaming and struggling to get out of the burning vehicles.
The fiery aftermath of the crash at the busy intersection of South La Brea and Slauson Avenue in the Windsor Hills neighborhood of West Los Angeles. (Fox News/RMG News)
In total, the accident killed six and eight were hospitalized. Six to seven vehicles were involved in the collision, three of which caught fire.
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Six people died in a crash in West Los Angeles on Thursday. (KTTV-TV)
“It almost looks like a war zone,” a California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer told reporters at the scene of the crash.
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The CHP told KTTV-TV that the driver of the Mercedes was seriously injured in the crash.
Andrew Mark Miller of Fox News contributed to this report.
