Another Deadly Truck Crash on Steep Beverly Hills Road

A truck driver was fatally injured Friday in a crash in Beverly Hills on the same stretch of a steep roadway where two LAPD officers were killed in separate accidents involving trucks.

Friday morning’s crash in the 800 block of Loma Vista Drive was reported at 8:18 a.m., according to the Beverly Hills Police Department.

The trucker, who was in his 20s, was trapped in the wreckage for about a half-hour and died at a hospital about 10:30 a.m., said coroner’s Assistant Chief Ed Winter. His name was withheld pending notification of his relatives.

On March 7, 2014, a dump truck collided with a Los Angeles Police Department cruiser on the same stretch of roadway, killing Officer Nicholas Lee and injuring his partner.

On May 9 of the same year, off-duty LAPD Detective Ernest Allen was killed when a concrete mixer collided with his vehicle on the same street.

--City News Service, photo via Shutterstock