{"id":277716,"date":"2026-04-21T00:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T00:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/277716\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T00:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T00:54:07","slug":"driver-in-stolen-car-hits-lapd-patrol-car-before-crashing-into-second-vehicle-in-south-los-angeles-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/277716\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver in stolen car hits LAPD patrol car before crashing into second vehicle in South Los Angeles, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">SOUTH LOS ANGELES (KABC) &#8212; Police say a driver in a stolen car crashed into a patrol vehicle in South Los Angeles on Sunday night before fleeing and hitting another vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Los Angeles police say the first crash happened shortly before 10:30 p.m. at 90th Street and San Pedro Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The suspect &#8212; behind the wheel of a vehicle that had been reported stolen &#8212; was reportedly driving recklessly before crashing into the LAPD patrol vehicle. Police say it&#8217;s unknown if the crash was intentional or not.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The driver fled the scene after the crash, then hit another vehicle before they got out and started running, according to LAPD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officers set up a perimeter in the area, looking for the driver. In an update early Monday morning, LAPD said the suspect was still outstanding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">LAPD said an ambulance was requested for the second vehicle hit by the suspect. It&#8217;s unknown how many people were inside the vehicle or what the extent of the injuries was.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The officer inside the patrol vehicle that was hit was not injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: A previous version of this story reported that the crash happened in San Pedro. This report has been updated to reflect that the crash happened in South Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTH LOS ANGELES (KABC) &#8212; Police say a driver in a stolen car crashed into a patrol vehicle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[119586,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-277716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-119586","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277716","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=277716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}