One person is dead and a man is in police custody Friday in connection with a fatal collision following a police pursuit in Westchester.
Officers from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Southwest Division were pursuing a driving while intoxicated suspect in an SUV around 1:30 a.m. Friday. The chase ended in the 10000 block South Sepulveda Boulevard, near Century and Aviation boulevards when the suspect crashed into a blue Honda sedan, LAPD Officer Nelson told City News Service.
Television footage shows the SUV nearly split in half after the collision.
A passenger in the SUV was pronounced dead at the scene and a person in the Honda was taken to a hospital in an unknown condition.
The second person traveling in the SUV tried to leave the scene but was captured and arrested, police said.