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A car crashed broadside into a bus in Bellflower Friday, injuring six people, two of them seriously.
The crash was reported about 6:30 p.m. on Somerset Boulevard near Woodruff Avenue, Dispatch Supervisor Robert Diaz of the Los Angeles County Fire Department said.
The car’s male driver and a male passenger were the most seriously injured, said Sgt. M. Nagaoka of the sheriff’s Lakewood Station. They were the car’s only occupants.
The other patients, all from the Norwalk Transit bus, sustained minor injuries, Nagaoka said, adding that all were taken to a hospital for treatment.
Witnesses told a news videographer at the scene said the older-model Acura that hit the bus appeared to be racing or involved in a chase with another vehicle that briefly stopped at the scene.
That vehicle’s driver got out and looked into the Acura before getting back into the other car and leaving the scene, one witness said.
Nagaoka was unable to confirm a witness report that the fleeing vehicle clipped a fire truck as it left the scene.
Nagaoka also said investigators have not verified witness accounts of a race or chase leading to the crash, but the investigation was ongoing.
— City News Service