A 25-year-old man was checked in to a hospital and found to be uninjured Saturday after he was freed from a black Honda Civic involved in a collision with a cement truck in South Los Angeles.
The accident was reported at 10:10 p.m. Friday in the 200 block of West Washington Boulevard near Grand Avenue, Brian Humphrey of the Los Angeles Fire Department said.
Firefighters used a crane to lift the cab of the cement truck off the sedan, then pulled the vehicle back and cut away the car’s roof to free the man who was trapped for 30 minutes. He was conscious and alert throughout the process and his legs were trapped beneath the dashboard, Humphrey said. He was taken to a hospital and checked for injuries, then released.
The cement truck driver, a 49-year-old man, was taken to a hospital with a minor head injury, Humphrey said.
High-voltage wires were down in the area and the incident required the temporary closure of the Metro Blue Line tracks in both directions near Washington Boulevard and Grand Avenue, said Humphrey.
There were no arrests in connection with the crash, Sgt. J. Brown of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Central Traffic Division said. “It was just an accident.”
The Civic driver was fortunate, she said. “He had like no injuries.”