Two pedestrians were injured Monday afternoon when a car driven by a suspected drunken driver, who had just left the scene of another collision, veered onto Hollywood Boulevard and crashed into a museum, police reported.
The motorist, a woman in her 30s whose name was not immediately released, was arrested on suspicion of DUI and hit-and-run following the 3:10 p.m. crash, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
She was attempting to flee the scene of a non-injury vehicle crash about a block away at Hollywood Boulevard and Las Palmas Avenue when her black, late-model Audi struck the pedestrians at Hollywood Boulevard and McCadden Place, Officer Aareon Jefferson alleged.
The Museum of Broken Relationships opened about five months ago in a building at the northwest corner of the intersection.
“It was determined that she (the motorist) was under the influence,” Jefferson said.
Paramedics rushed the pedestrians to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where one patient was listed in critical but stable condition and the other was treated for minor injuries, according to Sgt. Ben Zucker of the LAPD’s Hollywood Station.
The motorist was not injured, Zucker said.
The Museum of Broke Relationships, once a traveling exhibition revolving around the concept of failed relationships and their ruins, was conceptualized in Croatia by an artist ex-couple in 2006. A permanent museum was established in Zagreb in 2010, and the Hollywood location opened in May.
–City News Service