Harbor Freeway Collision Sends Seven to Hospital

HARBOR GATEWAY - A single vehicle collision brought pre-dawn traffic to a standstill on the northbound Harbor (SR-110) Freeway in the Harbor Gateway area of Los Angeles early Sunday morning, as Fire Department crews treated seven patients, five of them with critical injuries.

Summoned by California Highway Patrol dispatchers at 3:32 AM on Sunday, May 6, 2012, the Los Angeles Fire Department swiftly dispatched 39 personnel to safely manage the scene just north of El Segundo Boulevard, where a car collided forcefully with a concrete freeway median before overturning.

Five of the injured were readily removed by firefighters from the mangled sedan, though two remained badly trapped, requiring rescuers to skilfully disentangle them from the wreckage with hydraulic prying tools.

The serious to critically injured, described as 3 men and 4 women in their twenties, were taken to regional hospitals in a fleet of LAFD ambulances. The incident remains under investigation by the California Highway Patrol.

Dispatched Units: E64 E79 RA79 E264 T64 BC13 RA264 RA64 EM13 RA57 E57 RA65 RA33 RA865 RA866

Submitted by Brian Humphrey, Spokesman
Los Angeles Fire Department

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