Updated: 3 Killed, 4 Critically Injured in Car Rollover on 110 Freeway

By City News Service

A van smashed into a concrete wall at a sharp freeway junction that was built in 1931, and three people from Lancaster were killed early Saturday.

Four other people were critically injured in the single-vehicle crash, on the northbound Arroyo Seco (110) Parkway's connector to the Golden State (5) Freeway, California Highway Patrol Officer Alex Rubio said.

The dead people were a 12-year-old girl, a 19-year-old woman, and a 37-year-old woman. They were pronounced dead at the scene, and were residents of Lancaster.

At least four of the people in the van were ejected as it slid down the transition road.

The CHP was notified of the crash at 12:14 a.m. Firefighters and paramedics found that the 2000 GMC had made a the left turn off the freeway, smacked into the ramp's concrete wall, and slid on its right side, the CHP said.

Four people were fully ejected from the vehicle, with three suffering fatal injuries. Paramedics rushed the four injured people to Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center with minor to moderate injuries.

Los Angeles Fire Department spokeswoman Katherine Main said the injured were two men, and male and female juveniles.

The crash happened at a sharp "left exit" turn from Route 110 towards Interstate 5, just north of the northernmost tunnel. The turnoff was originally built as T-shaped intersection between Figueroa Street and Riverside Drive in 1931, according to Caltrans records.

It became a freeway offramp on 1940, when the Pasadena Freeway was connected to the tunnels. And the offramp became a freeway transition road when the Golden State Freeway was built in the 1950s.

The "left exit" ramp has a posted 25 mile per hour recommended speed, and flashing lights.