Traffic Accidents Los Angeles

Two people were critically injured and five others received minor injuries Sunday night when they were struck by a vehicle in Boyle Heights, a Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman said. The seven, some of them children, were hit by a passenger car shortly after 8 p.m. as they attempted to cross the street in the 2800 block of East 2nd Street, said Brian Humphrey of the Fire Department. The cause of the accident was not immediately known.

Two people were critically hurt and five suffered minor injuries Sunday night when they were struck by a car in Boyle Heights, a Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman said. The seven, five of them children and two of them women, were hit shortly after 8 p.m. as they tried to cross in the 2800 block of East 2nd Street, said Brian Humphrey of the Fire Department. The cause of the accident was not immediately known. The children were 2 to 11 years old.

A tractor-trailer lost control on the Hollywood Freeway on Friday afternoon, striking two cars, killing one motorist and closing at least three northbound lanes well into the night, a California Highway Patrol spokesman said. The truck jackknifed at 5:40 p.m. just north of the Sherman Way exit, CHP Officer Charles Blair said. The truck hit a Lexus, then a Honda. The Honda burst into flames and its driver was killed, Blair said.

The driver of a sedan that ran off the road in March and killed a 77-year-old Valley Village resident was sentenced to a year in jail. Edward Brown of Panorama City pleaded no contest to vehicular manslaughter after losing control of his car when his brakes failed. The sedan careened onto a Sherman Oaks sidewalk, striking Nasrollah Rezaie, who was standing near a bus stop. Rezaie died shortly after the 7:15 a.m. accident.

A 56-year-old man was struck by a car and killed Thursday night while illegally crossing a dark stretch of Ventura Boulevard in Studio City, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Chatsworth resident Steven Ettleson was wearing black clothing as he crossed the street just west of Whitsett Avenue. He was hit by a vehicle heading west about 11:20 p.m., Officer Morlee Watson said. The driver, a 21-year-old Sylmar man, was not charged.

A car carrying five teenagers overturned in Chatsworth on Thursday morning, leaving two girls in critical condition, authorities said. The teens were riding in a Ford Expedition when it rolled over several times on private property near 11100 Browns Canyon Road about 2:15 a.m., said Bob Collis, Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman. The driver and a passenger, both 15, were airlifted from the scene with critical head trauma, Collis said.

A sport-utility vehicle carrying five teenagers overturned in Chatsworth on Thursday morning, leaving two girls in critical condition, authorities said. The youths were riding in a Ford Expedition when it rolled over several times on private property near 11100 Browns Canyon Road about 2:25 a.m., said Bob Collis, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Fire Department. The car did not have tires that had been recalled, he said.

A man has been booked on suspicion of felony drunk driving after his truck smashed into a smaller pickup on the Golden State Freeway near Sylmar, killing a Bakersfield woman, authorities said Monday. Grant Karapetian, 38, of Glendale, was driving a Ford F-150 on Sunday when he swerved into the center divider of the southbound Golden State, near the San Diego Freeway transition, said Officer Charles Blair, a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol.

A 56-year-old woman died Sunday and several others were injured in a fiery freeway crash near Sylmar that involved at least half a dozen vehicles, authorities said. Authorities believe that alcohol may have been a factor, said Officer Rosa Ray of the California Highway Patrol. The accident occurred about 5:30 p.m.

A Reseda man accused of leading police on a high-speed chase that resulted in the death of a driver in Eagle Rock was charged Friday in Los Angeles with murder and other felonies, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office said. William Tanielian, 34, a suspect in about 50 restaurant robberies, fled from police on the Ventura Freeway in Glendale on Wednesday and crashed into another car on Figueroa Street, police said, killing its driver.