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Six people, including an infant and a pregnant woman, were killed and eight others were injured Thursday afternoon after Linton sped through a red light, causing a fiery multi-vehicle crash.

One vehicle flipped on its side and another vehicle, a sedan, was found off the highway in the bushes.

The crash was reported at 5:28 p.m. Thursday at Custer and Sheridan roads, according to CHP officials.

A Honda Civic going northbound on Sepulveda struck a BMW i4, the Los Angeles Police Department reported. Firefighters used hydraulic tools to free patients for transport to a regional trauma center, Humphrey said.

The collision occurred around 11 a.m. Saturday at Lombard and Fillmore streets, said Robert Rueca, a spokesperson for the San Francisco Police Department.

The truck driver subsequently attempted to transport the woman to a hospital, but she ultimately died in his vehicle.

One woman was killed in a two-vehicle collision in the West Hills area early Saturday morning.

One person died and three others were injured after a crash in Westwood Wednesday afternoon. The incident was reported about 3:15 p.m. in the 1200 block of South Beverly Glen Boulevard, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.

LAFD said the woman was briefly trapped in the wreckage and was later pronounced dead at the scene.

A two-vehicle crash in Hemet claimed the life of at least one person, authorities said Monday.

Investigators say a black GMC truck was traveling north on Damaree and veered into the opposite lane of traffic and collided with a black Cadillac sedan.

One person is dead and two others injured following a two-car crash in Lakeview Terrace.

A 24-year-old man was arrested after police said he ran down an elderly couple with his car in Merced.

A head-on collision with a wrong-way driver left one man dead and three others critically injured Friday in downtown Los Angeles.

The fatal collision was reported at 4:27 a.m. on South First Street south of Reed Street. According to San Jose police, the driver of a Chevrolet Silverado was heading the wrong way on southbound First Street and hit a man riding a bicycle, then continued traveling north.

The gray Infiniti was traveling westbound around 3 a.m. when it stopped in lanes "possibly due to a mechanical failure," according to California Highway Patrol Officer Mark Andrews.

The intersection of Treat Boulevard and Navaronne Way is again fully open to motorists, the Concord Police Department said on social media on Monday midnight.

According to the San Jose Police Department, at approximately 6:36 p.m., officers responded to the area of the Capitol Avenue exit off of Interstate Highway 680 to investigate a traffic collision involving two vehicles and a pedestrian.

A Washington Union High School student-athlete has been identified as the person killed in a two-vehicle collision involving a semi-truck and a pickup.

It happened on North Avenue between Clara Avenue and MLK Boulevard after 4 Friday morning.

Hinojosa says the man responsible is 41-year-old Danny Correa of Visalia. Officers made contact with him after his car became disabled near the scene.

Officers say 47-year-old Johnson Chang was driving around a curve in the road when he veered into oncoming traffic and collided head-on with Santana.

Authorities say the truck crashed into a home on Pollasky and 8th. Both the house and truck caught on fire.

Two people who were hit outside of Madera Wednesday have been pronounced dead.

Police were called to Octavia and Oak streets in Hayes Valley about 4 a.m. and found a male cyclist suffering from injuries. Crews tried to save him, but he died at the scene of the crash.

The pickup was driven by Sonora resident Sebastian Ruiz, 20, who had four passengers. Ruiz suffered major injuries and was pinned in the truck.

The crash happened in the area of East Tabor Avenue at Railroad Avenue around 8:39 a.m.

Two other people suffered minor injuries in the crash.

The California Highway Patrol said two people died as a result of this car crash. A 22-year-old man from Modesto was driving a Hyundai on the wrong side of the freeway.

A driver fatally struck a pedestrian in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood early Wednesday morning, officials said.

The incident occurred around 10:40 p.m. Tuesday night on Reseda Boulevard near the Braemar Country Club, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

Fresno police Lt. Leslie Williams said the rider, in his 50s, was traveling southbound on Fowler and ended up colliding with the back of a vehicle that was at a red light to make a left turn.

The crash killed Barajas and Quinonez and sent their other two family members to Community Regional Medical Center.

A suspected DUI crash in northeast Fresno cost a 15-year-old girl her life and resulted in life-altering injuries for two other teens in the car.

The crash was reported about 3:15 a.m. near Reservoir Avenue, according to the California Highway Patrol.

The woman, 36-year-old Shantel Hamilton of Merced, was riding her scooter near the intersection of 26th and G streets.

Police said the driver of a dark-colored vehicle was traveling southbound on Central Avenue at a high rate of speed when he or she struck Gomez, catapulting him into the air.

At least four people were rushed to hospitals from a single-vehicle crash Sunday on the San Diego (405) Freeway in Hawthorne, authorities said.

Simpson was riding west on Ashlan Avenue near Cedar Avenue on Tuesday night when a truck made a turn and struck him, Fresno Police reported.

The girl was crossing Guerneville Road with the “walk” indicator illuminated. A white four-door sedan turned right onto northbound Marlow Road and struck her at a slow rate of speed, police said.

The crash occurred at about 8:35 p.m. Sunday on Imperial Highway at California Street, according to a dispatcher at the Los Angeles Police Department’s Operations Center.

The driver of the Tacoma has minor injuries and is cooperating with the investigation, CHP said. No alcohol or drugs is suspected.

Several bystanders first worked to rescue the child, who was being held in the woman's arms, officials with the San Joaquin County Fire Authority said on Wednesday.

A teenage bicyclist was injured and flown to an Oakland hospital after a collision at a south Napa intersection early Tuesday evening, according to the California Highway Patrol.

A 20-year-old Los Angeles woman driving a 2008 Honda rear-ended a 2019 Isuzu box truck, causing both vehicles to careen toward the center divider wall.

A man has been hospitalized after being hit by a truck in southeast Fresno Monday afternoon.

The CHP’s online Traffic Incident Information Page says a white Cadillac sedan struck a pedestrian.

A search is on for the driver who struck a 15-year-old boy on a bicycle in Stockton, then took off from the scene.