Pursuit With Stolen Car Ends In With Crash On 405 Freeway In Van Nuys
The condition of the driver after the crash was not confirmed.
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The condition of the driver after the crash was not confirmed.
Two Southern California residents, unknown to each other until a scary event, are alive and able to tell the tale after someone fired shots at their vehicles while they were driving on the freeway.
All lanes of the southbound 405 Freeway were temporarily blocked Tuesday in the Sepulveda Pass following a two-vehicle collision.
Fire crews were battling a large structure fire in Van Nuys on Friday night.
The fire first started as a two-acre grass fire at about 12:10 p.m., but is now threatening to move into heavy brush.
The California Department of Transportation, which removed the unauthorized sign, said it was taken down because it was a distraction and a safety hazard.
The letters went up sometime overnight between Monday night and Tuesday morning on a hillside along the southbound 405 Freeway in the Sepulveda Pass.
The driver eventually got out of the vehicle and ran in the opposite direction on the highway, taking off after a vehicle that the individual side-swiped moments earlier.
All lanes of the southbound 405 were blocked at El Segundo Boulevard in Hawthorne due to a brush fire, CHP reports.
The 405 and 110 Freeway connector will be closed for 60 hours this weekend as part of a widening project, Caltrans announced.
No homes were threatened and no evacuations had been issued.
Police responded to the crash around 7 p.m., which involved a motorcyclist who died on scene. Information on the victim has not been released.
A Sigalert was issued for the northbound 710, just south of the 405 Freeway, at about 1:15 a.m. on Friday. The transition road from the 405 Freeway to the southbound 710 Freeway were also shut down.
A hazardous materials spill closed all lanes of the San Diego 405 Freeway in both directions at Inglewood Avenue in Redondo Beach Thursday
The crash happened at 9:40 p.m. near the Rosecrans Avenue exit. All northbound lanes of the freeway at Inglewood Avenue were shut down and traffic was diverted off the freeway.
Several lanes were closed at Sepulveda while crews put out a truck fire.
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Thursday approved $27 million in funding for a study towards adding toll lanes on one of the busiest freeways in the nation – the 405 Freeway in West Los Angeles.
Metro is in the early stages of a plan to create 405 Freeway "fast lanes" that would give drivers willing to pay up a lane of their own.
The California Highway Patrol is investigating a reported shooting on the 405 Freeway at Century Boulevard.
The two closures in the 5 Freeway bottleneck into Sylmar caused several miles of backup into Santa Clarita.
The discovery put a halt to construction, Carpenter said. Officials suspect the bones are human and of Native American descent, and are consulting with an archeologist and the county coroner.
The Sigalert was canceled just before 11 a.m. and all lanes were reopened.
Authorities say the driver of a Toyota Prius was cut off by a big rig and slammed into the back of the CHP vehicle, which had two officers inside. The officers were parked in lanes closed for Caltrans work at the time of the crash.
A California Highway Patrol motorcycle officer was taken to a local hospital in unknown condition following an accident on the southbound 405 Freeway at Lakewood Boulevard in Long Beach.
P-61's successful crossing is in the same general vicinity where another mountain lion, P-18, was struck and killed by a car in 2011 and an uncollared lion suffered the same fate in 2009.
