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The California Highway Patrol has reportedly arrested a driver seen on video speeding through a Los Angeles intersection and causing a fiery multi-car crash that left six dead, including a baby and a pregnant woman and her unborn fetus.
The driver of the dark-colored Mercedes-Benz in the Thursday afternoon crash, identified by police as a woman in her 40s who is a nurse, now faces charges of manslaughter and gross negligence, according to Fox LA.
Witnesses at the scene in the Windsor Hills area of West Los Angeles told Fox News that the collision caused a massive explosion that sounded like a bomb and a child thrown from a vehicle landed in a gas station.
“A lady picked up the baby that was thrown out, she ran into the store with the child, but you could tell there was no life in there,” Alphonso Ward said.
LOS ANGELES DRIVER SEEN SPEEDING THROUGH INTERSECTION BEFORE CRASH
Fire is seen at an intersection in Los Angeles on Thursday, August 4, immediately after a car crashed into another at high speed. (Fox News/RMG News)
“I think the devastating part was that you heard the scream. I don’t know if one of the victims was in the burning car or what,” he added.
Another witness, who was about two to three cars behind the point of impact, told Fox News he felt lucky to be alive and that he saw victims screaming and struggling to get out of burning vehicles.
The fiery aftermath of the crash at the busy intersection of South La Brea Avenue and Slauson Avenue in the Windsor Hills area of West Los Angeles. (Fox News/RMG News)
In total, six people died in the accident and eight were hospitalized. Six or seven cars were involved in the accident, three of which caught fire.
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Six people are dead after a car crash in West Los Angeles on Thursday. (KTTV-TV)
“It almost looks like a war zone,” a California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer told reporters at the scene of the crash.
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The CHP told KTTV-TV that the driver of the Mercedes was seriously injured in the crash.
Fox News’ Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.
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