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Name Not Disclosed

Age :

Gender : Unknown

Race : Unknown

Date : 02/07/2021

Location : 875 S. Alameda Street

City : Los Angeles

County : Los Angeles

State : California

Agency : Los Angeles Police Department

Officer(s) :Not Disclosed

Cause of Death : Vehicle

Event : Occupant killed in police chase crash

OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :

REASON FOR CHASE: Not disclosed in available records.
On 02/07/2021, one person was killed when a vehicle crashed into a semi-truck during a Los Angeles Police Department pursuit in downtown Los Angeles.

At approximately 5:13 p.m., Los Angeles Fire Department personnel were dispatched to a traffic collision at 875 S. Alameda Street. LAFD reported that the collision was related to a police pursuit and referred questions concerning the pursuit to the Los Angeles Police Department.

The collision involved a passenger vehicle and a semi-truck. The passenger vehicle became pinned beneath the semi-truck, trapping one occupant inside.

Firefighters initially described the trapped occupant as being in critical to grave condition and began an extrication operation. A second person involved in the collision sustained non-life-threatening injuries.

At approximately 5:35 p.m., LAFD confirmed that the person trapped in the vehicle beneath the semi-truck had died at the scene. The incident was turned over to the Los Angeles Police Department for investigation.

Contemporaneous television reporting independently documented the fatal collision and reported that the crash occurred during a police pursuit. Aerial footage showed the passenger vehicle lodged beneath the semi-truck at the crash scene.

The identity of the person killed, that person's position as driver or passenger, and the reason police initiated the pursuit are not established in the available publicly indexed records.

The 02/07/2021 Los Angeles County entry in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Fatality Analysis Reporting System, documenting one fatality, is consistent with this independently documented same-date fatal police pursuit crash in Los Angeles.

SOURCE LINKS :

https://www.foxla.com/news/one-dead-another-injured-after-car-collides-into-semi-truck-in-downtown-la
https://lafd.org/alerts?bureau=Central+Bureau&incident-type=&neighborhood=Downtown&page=30