In brief
A car drove onto a sidewalk outside a supermarket at 12:51 p.m. Saturday, injuring ten people, eight of whom were hospitalized. The driver, about 60 years old, stayed at the scene while authorities investigated. Cause remains undetermined and it is not yet known if the driver was hospitalized or arrested.
At 12:51 p.m. Saturday, a car drove onto the sidewalk outside a supermarket in the Arlington Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, striking pedestrians and forcing authorities to take seven of the injured to hospitals and one further injured to a local medical facility, according to local officials and the Xinhua Agency.
The Los Angeles Fire Department, in an update posted to its website, confirmed that ten individuals were assessed at the scene, eight of whom were taken to hospitals for treatment. The incident occurred a few feet south of the入口 of the supermarket, near the intersection of Main Street and Oak Avenue. The report did not list any injuries sustained by the driver or confirm whether any of the six remaining patients were being treated outside the hospitals.
The driver is described as a male of approximately 60 years of age who remained on site after the crash. Local television station KTLA 5, citing police sources, reported that the driver had not been arrested or transported to a facility. An official description from the station did not indicate whether he was among the hospitalized occupants or otherwise taken into custody.
Fire department officials noted that the cause of the incident remains undetermined, with no signs at the scene pointing to standard causes such as a tire blow‑out or a collision with another vehicle. LAFD spokesperson Eric Parker said the department was gathering information from traffic cameras and eyewitness accounts, and that the investigation required time to ascertain whether any mechanical failure had contributed to the vehicle’s loss of control.
CBS News reported that, as of 2:30 p.m. local time, the extent of the injuries sustained by the eight hospitalized victims was still unclear. The 2:30 p.m. report reiterated that ten people were assessed at the crash site, with only a subset of them requiring immediate hospital transport. The source noted that medical personnel were still triaging the patients, and that detailed injury profiles would be released as health officials had the opportunity to review the patients’ medical records.
All that the sources have established thus far is that the incident resulted in multiple hospitalizations and that the driver has not yet been detained or reported to authorities. The incident’s cause remains undetermined and the current status of the driver—whether he is being treated for injuries or is in police custody—has not yet been clarified. The extent of the victims’ injuries has also yet to be fully disclosed by the medical teams attending to them. These unresolved points, as the reports note, will remain in question until authorities complete their investigations and provide further details.