Girl Dressed in Halloween Costume Causes Major Crash
INCIDENT DATE/TIME: 4:00 am 11-1-25
LOCATION: 5 FWY/ Indiana St Exit
AREA/CITY: Boyle Heights
DETAILS:
- a bout 5 cars were involved in a horrible traffic collision on the Southbound 5 freeway.
- Good Samaritans stopped their cars and rushed to help one of the victims, who was not breathing. The good Samaritans began CPR while the man’s girlfriend looked on helplessly.
- LAFD arrived shortly after and took over.
- LAFD transported the man in serious condition to the hospital.
- A woman dressed in a Halloween costume was driving the blue sedan that rear-ended the white sedan. She was given a few DUI tests at the scene.
- Other vehicles involved in the crash are the cause of the initial crash when the blue sedan struck the white sedan. Those people were not transported to the hospital.
- The woman in the costume driving the blue sedan that crashed into the white sedan was arrested for possible DUI
HANDLING AGENCIES: CHP