A 19-year-old was arrested for allegedly driving under the
influence after a crash killed three men in another vehicle and
critically injured one person Sunday morning in North Hills, officials
said.
Responding officials discovered two men dead on arrival
when they responded to reports of a crash near Haskell Avenue and Roscoe
Boulevard (map) around 2:45 a.m., investigators said.
Firefighters extricated at least one person, the Los Angeles Fire Department tweeted.
Riley John Holman, of Mission Hills, was the sole occupant
of a Jeep Liberty heading eastbound on Roscoe when the SUV collided
head-on with a Toyota Corolla traveling westbound, said Officer Sae Ko
of the Los Angeles Police Department.
Three people were initially said to be injured, two
critically, but the LAPD later confirmed a third person had died at the
hospital.
The men who died were in the Toyota that was involved in
the crash, according to Ko. A fourth occupant of the vehicle, a rear
passenger, was critically injured.
A Honda Accord driven by Joshua Aaron, 29, of Pacoima, was
clipped by the Toyota during the crash, police said. Aaron was
uninjured.
Holman was arrested for alleged vehicular manslaughter
while intoxicated.
On-scene officials initially said the teen had been
critically injured, but officers with LAPD’s West Traffic Division later
said he sustained minor injuries.
Video of the scene showed the red Toyota was badly crushed and the front-end of a blue Jeep was mangled.
Tow trucks could be seen clearing the wrecked vehicles
from the area around 9:30 a.m. The roadway was expected to reopen in the
coming hour.
KTLA’s John A. Moreno contributed to this report.