UpdatedSat, Mar 6, 2021 at 7:10 pm PT
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Portions of Tampa Avenue and Chatsworth Street were expected to remain closed Saturday afternoon while police investigate a fatal wreck. (Shutterstock)
PORTER RANCH, CA One person died trapped in the wreckage of a two-vehicle crash in Porter Ranch Saturday.
The crash occurred shortly after 2:30 p.m. Saturday in the 10800 block of North Tampa Avenue, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department s Brian Humphrey. One vehicle ran a red light while northbound on Tampa Avenue and was broadsided on the passenger side by a westbound vehicle on Chatsworth Street driven by a 21-year-old man, said Sgt. J. McGee of the Los Angeles Police Department s Valley Traffic Bureau. The broadsided vehicle then slammed into a pole in the center median crushing the driver s side, he said.