{"id":460585,"date":"2026-09-11T14:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T14:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/460585\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T14:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T14:10:10","slug":"car-flies-off-overpass-lands-upside-down-in-deadly-downtown-los-angeles-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/460585\/","title":{"rendered":"Car flies off overpass, lands upside down in deadly downtown Los Angeles crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A driver was killed after his car flew off an overpass in downtown Los Angeles and landed upside down on the street below.<\/p>\n<p>KABC<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KABC logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789135810_545_origin-kabc.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Friday, September 11, 2026 12:57PM<\/p>\n<p>Follow ABC7 on Google<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) &#8212; A driver was killed after his car flew off an overpass in downtown Los Angeles and landed upside down on the street below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The car crashed through a railing on upper Grand Avenue just after 2:30 a.m. Friday and crashed down onto lower Grand Avenue below, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The fall was estimated to be 40 to 50 feet, which is equivalent to a 3 or 4-story building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The driver, only identified as a 30-year-old man, died at the scene. He was the only person in the car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">No other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Details about what led up to the driver crashing through that railing were unclear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">DEVELOPING: We will add more details to this report as they become available.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver was killed after his car flew off an overpass in downtown Los Angeles and landed upside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[181598,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-460585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-181598","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\/460585","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=460585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}