A boy behind the wheel of a vehicle was killed Tuesday in a two-vehicle crash in Placentia that also injured four other people, authorities said.
Officers were sent to Yorba Linda Boulevard and Valencia Avenue at about 8:20 a.m. regarding a major traffic crash, according to Sgt. Joe Connell of the Placentia Police Department
They found the boy trapped inside a vehicle. Firefighters and paramedics extricated him and rushed him to a hospital, where he died from his injuries.
The boy’s passenger, another male juvenile, had exited the vehicle under his own power and was located at the scene and taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, Connell said.
The occupants of the other vehicle — a 39-year-woman, a boy and a girl — were all hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, he added.
Placentia police urged anyone with information regarding the crash to call them at 714-993-8157.