

Northbound lanes were reopened just before 5 a.m. The shooting initially prompted a closure of the entire freeway. NOTE: CHP incident text may be been modified from its original to improve readability, as a result some errors may have been introduced. He said it was unclear if the man owned the car, but the vehicle was not believed to have been stolen. Barrios said early Thursday afternoon that while the suspect's condition was unknown, he was still alive.īarrios said it was still unclear how the Mustang was originally damaged, noting that it would take a significant collision to cause the airbags to deploy. The officers returned fire, striking the man, who was taken to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in unknown condition. When the man saw the officers, "that's when he reached into the vehicle, pulled out a gun and started shooting at the officers." When they approached the vehicle, they spotted a man, later identified as Michael Northcott, 37, standing nearby, Barrios said. just south of the 101 Freeway near Skirball Center Drive.Īccording to CHP Officer Jose Barrios, officers saw a damaged, red Ford Mustang stopped on the right shoulder of the freeway with its airbags deployed, and they stopped to investigate. All southbound lanes reopened shortly before 1 p.m. Wednesday, LAPD officers initiated a traffic stop near the intersection of Florence and Western avenues in South LA’s Manchester Square neighborhood. The shooting happened shortly before 3 a.m. The southbound side of the 405 Freeway through the Sepulveda Pass was shut down for hours after officers shot someone early Thursday morning. I-405 California real time traffic, road conditions, California constructions, current driving time, current average speed and California accident reports.

LOS ANGELES (KABC) - The southbound side of the 405 Freeway through the Sepulveda Pass was shut down for hours after officers shot someone early Thursday morning.Īll southbound lanes reopened shortly before 1 p.m., Caltrans announced, but not before causing a traffic nightmare for commuters. But LA did have the biggest difference between normal travel times and rush hour travel times-rush hour is an insane 43 percent slower than non-peak hours.The southbound side of the 405 Freeway through the Sepulveda Pass was shut down for hours after officers shot a man they say opened fire on them as they approached a stalled car. Angelenos spend about 80 extra hours in traffic every year. Overall, greater Los Angeles only had the second worst traffic in the US, following Washington, DC. Not to be left out, the 110, 405, and 5 Freeways all make an appearance in the line-up of 25 worst freeway sections: Interstate 405 (I405) freeway mainline, and its onandoff ramps at Crenshaw Boulevard and 182nd Street in the City of Torrance, Los Angeles County. That one is its most heinous at night, on Wednesdays from 6 pm to 7 pm, when it'll take 70 minutes to get from one point to the other. Although each state sets its own traffic laws, most California traffic. Number two was also on the 101: the nearly 22-mile stretch from the 60 Freeway/Soto to Haskell Avenue in Encino. In the United States, traffic keeps to the right. At worst day (Wednesdays), during the worst time (8 am to 9 am), that 26-mile trip can take 90 minutes. CHP chased the car onto the 101 Freeway before merging onto the I-405 South. Real-time coverage of Los Angeles and California traffic, including crashes, Sigalerts, road construction and other delays. Detailed traffic incident information for the 405 traveling South in Los Angeles, accidents, CHP incidents, travel times, fatalities, construction alerts, traffic hazards, and SIG Alerts happening now.
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The top spot goes to the southbound 101 Freeway between Woodland Hills and the area around Downtown's Union Station. For that, there's new data from traffic-watching firm Inrix, which found that LA was home to 11 of the top 25 worst segments of freeway in the country, says the LA Times, including the top three on the list. To do that, it's probably important to know the worst ones too, so they can be avoided like the plague. If the stereotypes of Saturday Night Live's mock soap opera The Californians are real, Angelenos are obsessed with discussing in detail the best ways to get around town.
