{"id":452707,"date":"2026-09-03T23:58:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T23:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/452707\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T23:58:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T23:58:18","slug":"1-dead-4-injured-after-senior-driver-crashes-car-in-trader-joes-parking-lot-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/452707\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead, 4 injured after senior driver crashes car in Trader Joe’s parking lot, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One person was killed and four others injured after a woman collided with a group of pedestrians in a Trader Joe\u2019s parking lot near the Grove on Thursday afternoon, authorities said.<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Fire Department responded at 1:21 p.m. to a report of a vehicle crashed into a security stand in a parking lot near the intersection of 3rd Street and Fairfax Avenue. <\/p>\n

One person was pronounced dead at the scene, and four others were transported to a hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n

\"An <\/p>\n

An LAPD officer responds to the scene of a car accident, seen in the foreground.<\/p>\n

(Genaro Molina \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n

The driver of the car was a woman in her 80s, according to the Los Angeles Police Department, which is investigating the collision. <\/p>\n

Helicopter footage captured by KTLA <\/a>showed Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics treating the injured. A white canopy was set up over the body of the person who was killed, while a white sedan with front-end damage could be seen pinned against a partially crushed structure. <\/p>\n

Firefighters could be seen wheeling an older woman in a wheelchair.<\/p>\n

Information on the identity of the person killed or the cause of the crash was not immediately available. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person was killed and four others injured after a woman collided with a group of pedestrians in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[21723,283,44280,10141,1776,3830,48,52,51,47,6024,50,49,17428,7656,236,178875,4327,9430,3299,1557],"class_list":["post-452707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-3rd-street","tag-car","tag-fairfax-avenue","tag-grove","tag-information","tag-intersection","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-parking-lot","tag-person","tag-police","tag-senior-driver","tag-thursday-afternoon","tag-trader-joe","tag-treatment","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452707","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=452707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}