California Car Crash Kills Three, Injures One

May 01—Three people were killed and one person was injured early Friday when a car flew off a 710 Freeway offramp at Anaheim Street in Long Beach and landed in the Los Angeles River, officials said.

The incident occurred just after 4 a.m. on the freeway's northbound offramp, according to the California Highway Patrol. The car had four passengers—three men and a woman all in their 20s, said Long Beach Fire Department spokesman Brian Fisk. Two of the men and the woman were pronounced dead at the scene, he said.

The surviving passenger was rushed to a local trauma center with moderate injuries, Fisk said. Firefighters used ropes to hoist the survivor out of the car, he said.

Video of the crash site showed the car upside down in the river with firefighters and paramedics crowded around the vehicle. The car had flipped and landed on rocks in the waterway, authorities said.

Firefighters were working to remove the bodies as of 6 a.m., and officials of the Los Angeles County coroner's office were headed to the scene, authorities said.

The CHP shut down the Anaheim Street offramps for both northbound and southbound traffic while firefighters and police cleaned up the scene and investigated the crash.

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