A woman was killed and a girl was hospitalized after being hit by a pickup truck that crashed into an apartment building Tuesday morning in the Mid-Wilshire neighborhood of Los Angeles.
The crash was reported in the 6000 block of Colgate Avenue near Hancock Park Elementary School. Los Angeles police responded to the scene around 8 a.m.
The van rammed the woman in her 30s and the girl, aged around 6, who were walking near a bend in the road before colliding with the two-story apartment. The woman died at the scene. The girl was hospitalized in critical condition.
The driver of the van, identified only as a man in his 30s, was hospitalized with moderate injuries.