(KTLA-TV) |
SUNLAND -- Two children were pulled from the burning wreckage of a freeway crash that killed their father, mother and teenage brother in Sunland Sunday morning, authorities said.
The collision on the westbound shoulder of the freeway just east of Sunland Boulevard happened about 5 a.m., according to the California Highway Patrol.
The GMC the family was riding in smashed into the back of a big rig that was legally parked on the side of the 210 Freeway, said Brian Humphrey of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
The GMC burst into flames and ignited a small brush fire nearby that was quickly extinguished.
A passerby dragged a boy, 11, and girl, 9, from the burning wreckage, Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey said.
The bodies of the father 41, the mother, 40, and their 14-year-old son were later found in the vehicle.
The surviving children were taken to Children's Hopsital with minor injuries and were expected to be released to the custody of their grandparents, California Highway Patrol officials told KTLA News.
The 73-year-old driver of the Kenwood truck, which had been hauling lettuce, was hospitalized with minor injuries.
It took some 60 firefighters less than 30 minutes to put out the brush fire sparked by the crash, which scorched about a quarter-acre, Humphrey said.
The cause of the crash is under investigation.
The collision on the westbound shoulder of the freeway just east of Sunland Boulevard happened about 5 a.m., according to the California Highway Patrol.
The GMC the family was riding in smashed into the back of a big rig that was legally parked on the side of the 210 Freeway, said Brian Humphrey of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
The GMC burst into flames and ignited a small brush fire nearby that was quickly extinguished.
A passerby dragged a boy, 11, and girl, 9, from the burning wreckage, Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey said.
The bodies of the father 41, the mother, 40, and their 14-year-old son were later found in the vehicle.
The surviving children were taken to Children's Hopsital with minor injuries and were expected to be released to the custody of their grandparents, California Highway Patrol officials told KTLA News.
The 73-year-old driver of the Kenwood truck, which had been hauling lettuce, was hospitalized with minor injuries.
It took some 60 firefighters less than 30 minutes to put out the brush fire sparked by the crash, which scorched about a quarter-acre, Humphrey said.
The cause of the crash is under investigation.
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