2 dead after head-on crash in San Fernando Valley

Two people were killed in a head-on, two-car crash in the Shadow Hills part of the San Fernando Valley on Monday afternoon. 

It happened at around 3:45 p.m. on Wentworth Street near Wheatland Avenue, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. 

Firefighters said that two people were found trapped inside the wreckage from the crash, one inside each vehicle. Both were declared dead at the scene. 

As their investigation continues, detectives said that for unknown reasons, one of the two cars involved in the crash crossed over the line and crashed head-on with the second vehicle. 

Neither of the victims has been identified, but investigators say one was a man in his 70s and the other was a woman in her 50s. 

Los Angeles Police Department's Valley Traffic Division investigators will be handling the case. 

SkyCal was overhead as firefighters worked to free the victims from the heavily damaged cars.