A two-vehicle crash in the Harvard Park area of Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve killed a father and daughter and critically injured a mother and toddler, authorities said Monday.
It happened about 11:20 p.m, when investigators said an SUV traveling at a high rate of speed while fleeing from a traffic collision, failed to stop for a posted stop sign westbound 60th Place at Normandie Avenue.
The speeding SUV collided into a small sedan traveling southbound Normandie Avenue that was occupied by a father driving the vehicle, mother in the passenger seat, and two young sisters between the ages of 2 and 5 seated in car seats in the back, police said.
The family’s car was violently forced into a street sign and fence on the southwest corner of 60th Place and Normandie Avenue, where some good Samaritans began attempting to remove all four passengers from the smoking sedan, police said.
LAFD responded to the scene and transported the two young sisters and mother to a nearby hospital. The father was pronounced deceased at scene, and the oldest of the two sisters was also pronounced deceased by medical staff upon arrival to the hospital.
The young mother and toddler were listed in critical condition, police said.
The driver of the SUV was also transported to a nearby hospital and being treated for serious non-life-threatening injuries. Investigators said the driver of the SUV is facing possible murder/gross vehicular manslaughter charges.
