WILLOWBROOK \u2013 A 34-year-old man was killed and a 7-year-old child was injured Tuesday morning in a single-vehicle crash in the unincorporated Willowbrook neighborhood of Los Angeles County area near Watts.<\/p>\n
The crash was reported at 5:12 a.m. on Imperial Highway at Compton Avenue, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department.<\/p>\n
The vehicle hit the center divider, according to an officer with the Los Angeles Police Department\u2019s South Traffic Division.<\/p>\n
He said the crash location was on the Wilmington Avenue overpass and the vehicle was westbound on Imperial when it struck the divider.<\/p>\n
The man was pronounced dead at the scene and the child, reported to be a girl, was rushed to a hospital, the officer said.<\/p>\n
An update on the child\u2019s condition was not immediately available.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about the crash are urged to the LAPD South Traffic Division detectives at (323) 421-2577. Anonymous stops can be submitted through L.A. Regional Crime Stoppers at 800-222-TIPS (800-222-8477) or\u00a0lacrimestoppers.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WILLOWBROOK \u2013 A 34-year-old man was killed and a 7-year-old child was injured Tuesday morning in a single-vehicle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[12119,48,52,51,47,50,49,2852],"class_list":["post-225394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-crime-public-safety","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-watts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225394","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=225394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}