Four sent to hospital, including one in critical condition, after collision sends car into homeless encampment on South Virgil Avenue in Los Angeles, California
4 hospitalized after car slams into homeless encampment on Koreatown sidewalk, LAFD says
The violent collision occurred shortly before 6:30 a.m. in the 500 block of South Virgil Avenue, leaving one person trapped underneath the white Dodge before being extricated by firefighters, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
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