3 dead, 6 hurt after 92-year-old driver hits bicyclist and crashes into Los Angeles grocery store

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three radical were killed and six others were wounded aft a 92-year-old operator collided with a bicyclist and past mislaid power and slammed into a market store Thursday successful the Los Angeles vicinity of Westwood, authorities said.

The pistillate driving a Toyota Prius deed the bicyclist soon aft noon and past continued for different artifact earlier swerving into the bakery conception of a 99 Ranch Market and past coming to a stop, trapping respective radical underneath the vehicle, constabulary and occurrence officials said.

Capt. Anthony Espinoza of the Los Angeles Police Department called the clang “an unfortunate accident," and said it is not believed to person been intentional.

Two men, ages 30 and 55, and a 42-year-old woman, who were each wrong the bakery astatine the time, died astatine the scene, the Los Angeles Fire Department said successful its report. Two men, some 35, were taken to the infirmary successful captious condition, and 2 different men, ages 38 and 37, were successful just condition, according to the department.

The bicyclist and the operator declined offers to beryllium taken to the hospital, the occurrence section said.

The operator was a 92-year-old woman, Los Angeles Fire Department spokesperson Lyndsey Lantz told The Associated Press. Officials said she was cooperating with investigators and was undergoing a aesculapian evaluation.

TV quality footage showed a metallic Prius afloat wrong the store, its trunk popped open. Next to it was a agleam yellowish motion directing shoppers to Korean thoroughfare nutrient and desserts. A fashionable Asian supermarket concatenation with astir 2 twelve stores successful California, the 99 Ranch Market store that was damaged is astir a mile from the University of California, Los Angeles, campus.

“I can’t archer you however galore coffees I’ve gotten successful that bakery,” Sean Divekar, 32, told the Los Angeles Times, becoming affectional arsenic helium learned radical were killed.

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Watson reported from San Diego.

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