Vehicle Crashes, Lands Vertically on Building in Vernon

VERNON, Calif., May 17 (KNN) — A vehicle landed vertically on a building after crashing in the city of Vernon overnight leaving multiple passengers injured.

The crash occurred shortly after 2:30 a.m. in the 4200 block of District Boulevard. Vernon police officers and Los Angeles County Fire Department personnel were dispatched to the location after multiple reports of a vehicle into a building.

Sgt. Edward Hernandez with the Vernon Police Department told KNN on camera at the scene, that the department responded to an injury traffic collision at the location and upon arrival, located the male driver who was already outside of the vehicle.

Officers attempted to remove the remaining three passengers from the vehicle. Hernandez said he and a good Samaritan used fire extinguishers to douse the flames that started “to brew in the front drivers seat.” One of the officers as well pulled out a fire extinguisher and helped to stall the flames until the arrival of the fire department.

All patients were rescued from the vertical vehicle and transported by ambulance in unknown conditions to a local hospital. “Everyone in the car as far as know, lived,” stated Hernandez.

Hernandez said that in his almost 22 years with the Vernon PD, he has never seen a car like this “pinned up the way that it was.”

The Vernon PD Detective Bureau was also at the scene to conduct their investigation into the cause of the crash.

LACoFD Urban Search & Rescue responded and was in the the process of securing the vehicle and structure at the time of this report.

Gabriel Pabon, Video Journalist / KNN