{"id":298276,"date":"2026-05-03T20:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T20:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/298276\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T20:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T20:23:10","slug":"two-dead-including-1-year-old-in-playa-del-rey-hit-and-run-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/298276\/","title":{"rendered":"Two dead, including 1-year-old, in Playa Del Rey hit-and-run crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two people, including a 1-year-old, died after a Sunday morning hit-and-run collision in Playa Del Rey.<\/p>\n<p>The two-car crash occurred at 4:34 a.m. Sunday morning on Vista Del Mar Lane near Culver Boulevard. A southbound vehicle  crossed into the northbound lane and struck a second oncoming vehicle, Los Angeles police said. <\/p>\n<p>Responding officers and emergency officials identified four crash victims at the scene. <\/p>\n<p>One man died at the site of the crash as result of his injuries. <\/p>\n<p>Paramedics took three others to the hospital. A 1-year-old child died at the hospital. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/lafd.org\/alert\/traffic-05032026-inc0306\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">According to the Los Angeles Fire Department<\/a>, a woman involved in the collision was in critical condition while in transit to the hospital. A second man made it to the hospital alive, but his current condition was not known, the LAPD said.<\/p>\n<p>The relationship between the victims was not immediately known.<\/p>\n<p>The driver responsible for the crash \u2014 who drove a white Jeep, ran away from the scene and headed northbound on Vista Del Mar. They remain at large.<\/p>\n<p>The LAPD\u2019s investigation is ongoing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people, including a 1-year-old, died after a Sunday morning hit-and-run collision in Playa Del Rey. The two-car&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[101099,126384,1583,349,48,52,51,5015,47,50,49,63,1555,58876,1594,10105,13824,2489,126386,3231,126385],"class_list":["post-298276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-crash-victim","tag-emergency-official","tag-hospital","tag-injury","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lapd","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-man","tag-northbound-lane","tag-other","tag-paramedic","tag-result","tag-scene","tag-second-oncoming-vehicle","tag-site","tag-vista-del-mar-lane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298276","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=298276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}