A man and woman were killed and three other people, including a child, were injured in a wrong-way crash Tuesday morning possibly involving a drunken driver on the northbound Harbor (110) Freeway in downtown Los Angeles.
The crash was reported about 2 a.m. near 9th Street, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The driver of a Lexus SUV was traveling southbound in the northbound lanes of the freeway and crashed into a Toyota sedan with two people inside, killing both, according to Sgt. Jeff Lane, who added alcohol was suspected as a factor in the crash and a third vehicle hit the Toyota after the initial crash.
The man driving the SUV was briefly trapped in the vehicle and taken to a hospital with serious injuries. A woman passenger in the SUV and a child in the backseat sustained minor injuries, Lane said.
The names of the fatally injured people were not immediately available.
The Nos. 3, 4 and 5 lanes of the northbound 110 Freeway at Ninth Street and the transition roads from both directions of the Santa Monica (10) Freeway to the northbound110 Freeway were closed until about 6:30 a.m., when all lanes and transition roads were reopened.