A two-vehicle collision Sunday involving a Waymo near downtown Los Angeles sent two people to the hospital and left several others injured, according to first responders. <\/p>\n
The crash was reported at 5:45 a.m. near the intersection of Venice Boulevard and Toberman Street in the Pico-Union neighborhood. <\/p>\n
A Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson could not confirm the exact number of victims. A spokesperson from the Los Angeles Fire Department said at least two people were taken to local hospitals and at least one other was treated and released at the scene.<\/p>\n
Photos from the site of the accident show debris and clothing scattered around. <\/p>\n
The accident was initially reported as an auto-pedestrian collision, and the cause of the crash remains unclear. LAPD said at noon Sunday that the police investigation was ongoing.<\/p>\n
A Waymo spokesperson suggested the company\u2019s vehicle was not at fault. <\/p>\n
According to the company, the Waymo car was traveling east at 27 mph on Venice Boulevard when a blue sedan going 47-50 mph hit a pedestrian outside a crosswalk and then swerved into the opposite traffic lane, striking the self-driving car.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe safety of our riders and other road users is our top priority,\u201d spokesperson Ethan Teicher said. \u201cWe are coordinating with first responders and are grateful for their quick response.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A two-vehicle collision Sunday involving a Waymo near downtown Los Angeles sent two people to the hospital and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[165431,8197,1804,350,16161,1583,48,52,51,47,50,49,63,6170,21837,43985,165432,11758,165433,111857,5987],"class_list":["post-413199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-accident-show-debris","tag-collision","tag-company","tag-crash","tag-first-responder","tag-hospital","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-mph","tag-multiple-people","tag-noon-sunday","tag-other-road-user","tag-spokesperson","tag-toberman-street","tag-venice-boulevard","tag-waymo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413199","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=413199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}