'Dramatic Collision' Shuts Down Burbank Blvd.

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In what Los Angeles Fire Department officials called a "dramatic collision," a full size white SUV, brand new still with paper license plates, tumbled off the southbound 170 Hollywood Freeway off-ramp late Saturday night onto Burbank Blvd. barely missing an LAPD squad car that passed by the very same spot just moments before. It was said the sergeant saw the crash, feet away, in his rear view mirror.

It appears that a family of four was traveling south on the 170 and while getting off at Burbank Blvd., sheared a utility pole and tumbled multiple times before coming to a stop on the street. A firefighter responding to the scene said that he thought the vehicle was a sedan and not a SUV by the looks of it in its crushed state.

LAPD officers came to the aid of the two young boys, 10 and 13 years of age, who were transferred to the LA County-USC Medical trauma center in moderate distress. The mother, transferred with the two boys, was in serious condition and the last victim to be freed from the car after the use of multiple sets of jaws of life. The father, who was driving, was listed in critical condition.