Firefighters freed two people from a two-vehicle crash in Chinatown while Los Angeles Police officers chased — or as was later described, “tracked” — one of the vehicles.
The crash was reported at 4:52 p.m. Saturday at 1220 N. Spring St., next to Los Angeles State Historic Park, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department’s Nicholas Prange.
Paramedics were tending to five patients in all, and firefighters used hydraulic tools to free two of them from the wreckage, Prange said.
Three of the patients had been in a gray BMW that police were tracking, LAPD Officer J. Chaves told City News Service.
The officers began tracking the car at 4:46 p.m. at Soto Street and Michigan Avenue after police received a call regarding a man with a gun, Chaves said. It ended with a crash into a car, sending the other car careening into a wall.
It was unclear which vehicle or vehicles the trapped patients were in.
The five hospitalized patients, all in fair to moderate condition, were described as a 40-year-old woman, two 18-year-old men, a 17-year-old boy and a 16-year-old boy, Prange said. It was unclear which of the vehicles each patient was in.