CRASH KILLS MAN; HIT-RUN SUSPECT HELD.Byline: Jason Kandel Staff Writer ENCINO - A 37-year-old Hollywood Hills The Hollywood Hills, an unofficial designation of part of the City of Los Angeles, California, are part of the eastern section of the low transverse range of the Santa Monica Mountains, which extends from the Los Feliz District and Hollywood, on the south side of the Valley, to man was killed in a fiery freeway crash with a drunk driving suspect whose own car burst into flames as she tried to flee the scene, police said Friday. Carey Grant was pronounced dead at the scene of the 11:45 p.m. Thursday crash in the eastbound lanes of the Ventura Freeway The Ventura Freeway is a freeway in southern California running from Ventura to Pasadena. It is the principal east-west route through Ventura County and in the southern San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County. near the Amestoy Avenue pedestrian bridge, police said. Police arrested Danielle L. Mason, 20, of Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. on suspicion of murder shortly after the crash. She was being held at the Van Nuys jail in lieu of $1 million bail. Police identified her as the driver of the 2000 Ford Focus that rear-ended Grant's Jeep Cherokee Jeep Cherokee can refer to five different SUV models produced by Jeep from 1974 to the present:
California Highway Patrol Officer Leland Tang said Mason fled the scene and was apprehended two miles away, on the Haskell Avenue off-ramp, after witnesses followed her and reported her location on their cell phones. Police said that when they arrived on Haskell, the suspect's mangled car was in flames. ``She was unable to perform the field sobriety test as explained and demonstrated,'' Tang said. ``She was highly intoxicated in·tox·i·cate v. in·tox·i·cat·ed, in·tox·i·cat·ing, in·tox·i·cates v.tr. 1. To stupefy or excite by the action of a chemical substance such as alcohol. 2. .'' Witnesses told police that after the crash, Mason got out of her car, saw the flames coming from Grant's Jeep, then drove away, Tang said. |
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