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A vehicle drove into a busy crowd of people waiting to get into a nightclub in Los Angeles early Saturday, injuring 30 people, with at least three in critical condition.

The incident took place on Santa Monica Boulevard, the city’s fire department said, and people were quickly transported to local hospitals and trauma centers.

According to Cpt Adam VanGerpen, the public information officer for the Los Angeles fire department, the line of people struck by the vehicle, a Nissan Versa, were mostly female, and were waiting to get into the nightclub when the car also hit a taco truck and a nearby valet stand.

The paramedics on the scene determined that one of the patients had a gunshot wound, VanGerpen said.

Not a lot to go on here, overall. The gunshot wound is a weird asterisk on whether the driver had an emergent medical condition that could explain this as a true accident.

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[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's really weird not to specify if it was a member of the crowd or an occupant of the vehicle who had the gun shot wound.

[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

The driver was shot. Apparently the crowd attacked him afterwards. Police aren't saying if he was shot first, but they have a description of the shooter, which unless they saw him get shot somewhere else implies the shooting was after the crash?

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[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is horrendous reporting. There was a taco truck or maybe taco cart, but they were selling hotdogs...

[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

To be fair, I've seen the bacon-wrapped hotdog carts here in SF also selling street tacos, so it could be both.

[–] womjunru@lemmy.cafe 3 points 4 days ago

Yeah everyone has tacos these days. Even the White House.