Motorist, Passenger Killed In Single-Vehicle Crash In South LA

LOS ANGELES, CA - A motorist and passenger were killed in a single- vehicle crash Sunday in the Crenshaw area of south Los Angeles, police said.

The crash occurred at about 3:20 a.m. in the area of Martin Luther King Jr. and Crenshaw boulevards, said Officer Norma Eisenman of the Los Angeles Police Department's Media Relations Section.

"There's a lot of construction around there," Eisenman said.

The motorist was going westbound on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard when the vehicle struck a center median and caught fire. The motorist and a passenger was pronounced dead at the scene, she said.

Firefighters and paramedics dispatched to the location took no one to any area hospitals, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.

—City News Service