{"id":6579,"date":"2025-07-19T19:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T19:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/6579\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T19:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T19:11:10","slug":"vehicle-driven-into-crowd-in-los-angeles-injuring-at-least-30-lafd-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/6579\/","title":{"rendered":"Vehicle driven into crowd in Los Angeles, injuring at least 30: LAFD | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Fire Department in California, United States has said a vehicle has been driven into a crowd of people in East Hollywood, injuring at least 30.<\/p>\n<p>Three people are in critical condition, the department reported Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>There are reports that the driver of the vehicle lost consciousness, drove into a taco cart and subsequently ran into a large number of people outside the club.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Van Gerpen, public information officer for the Los Angeles City Fire Department told US broadcaster ABC that a line of people \u2013 the majority female \u2013 were waiting to enter a nightclub when they were struck by a vehicle that also hit a taco truck and valet stand.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics discovered that one of the patients had a gunshot wound, Van Gerpen said. \u201cThis is under police investigation,\u201d he said. \u201cThis will be a large investigation with the LAPD.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred at about 2:00am (09:00 GMT) on Santa Monica Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LAFD Alert- <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EastHollywood?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#EastHollywood<\/a> Traffic with Multiple Patients 4661 W Santa Monica Bl MAP:  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/714PH0XwN5\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/714PH0XwN5<\/a> FS35; DETAILS: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jwSEQFLOnw\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/jwSEQFLOnw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LAFD \ud83d\udd25 (@LAFD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LAFD\/status\/1946502218787479872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 19, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Fire Department in California, United States has said a vehicle has been driven into a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40,1055,6075],"class_list":["post-6579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}