A driver was arrested on suspicion of driving underneath the affect after a crash left a 3-year-old boy in important situation on the 5 Freeway in Sylmar, officers mentioned.
Officers with the California Freeway Patrol responded to the northbound lanes of the 5 Freeway, close to the interchange with the 14 Freeway, at 12:50 a.m. Friday.
Officers consider the 3-year-old and his dad and mom have been headed northbound on the freeway once they have been struck from behind by a 2014 Ford Focus.
The motive force of the Focus, Christian Bedolla, 31, is suspected of driving at an unsafe velocity when he crashed into the rear of the household’s 2001 Ford Expedition, based on the CHP.
The motive force of the Expedition misplaced management of the automotive and slammed right into a guardrail on the precise shoulder of the freeway, then hit a concrete pillar underneath Balboa Boulevard, based on the CHP.
Officers with the Los Angeles Police Division have been the primary to reach on the scene and tried to offer first support to the kid till paramedics arrived, based on the CHP assertion.
Bedolla was taken into custody on suspicion of DUI, the assertion learn.
The boy and his dad and mom have been taken to Northridge Hospital Medical Middle, a CHP spokesperson mentioned.
