{"id":111923,"date":"2025-12-29T03:23:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T03:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/111923\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T03:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T03:23:14","slug":"2-hospitalized-after-car-slams-into-metro-train-in-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/111923\/","title":{"rendered":"2 hospitalized after car slams into Metro train in Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two people were rescued after a vehicle collided with a Metro light rail train in Los Angeles\u2019 Exposition Park neighborhood Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The crash happened around 4 p.m. at Exposition Boulevard and Raymond Avenue and involved a Metro train and a small compact vehicle that struck the train, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Video streamed on Citizen showed the car was badly damaged. Both occupants were taken to a local hospital with unspecified injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cAll passengers on the train were assessed and are uninjured,\u201d the Fire Department said.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/crash-2.png\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"Car vs. Train\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ae1b2aba40846f358e78cd8dc559104a.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Citizen footage of a collision involving a vehicle at a Metro Rail train on Dec. 28, 2025. (KTLA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The cause of the crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The collision caused significant disruptions for Metro E-Line passengers as train service through the area was halted. As of 4:30 p.m., there was no service between Expo\/Western and Expo\/Vermont stations. Bus shuttles were set up to move passengers around the crash scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTLA.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTLA. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people were rescued after a vehicle collided with a Metro light rail train in Los Angeles\u2019 Exposition&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[21107,11057,48,52,51,47,6024,50,49,4182,41217,16414],"class_list":["post-111923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-exposition-boulevard","tag-fire-department","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-fire-department","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-metro","tag-metro-train","tag-train-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}