Crime & Safety

Two Airlifted in Head-On Collission

Two men are seriously injured in canyon crash.

Two people were freed from their vehicles using the Jaws of Life then flown by helicopters to hospitals tonight after a head-on collision in a canyon above Malibu, a Los Angeles County Fire Department official said.

The crash was reported at about 9 p.m. at the intersection of Las Virgenes and Piuma roads, said Los Angeles County Fire Department Dispatch Supervisor Michael Pittman.

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A news videographer at the scene said the two injured people were males taken from each of the vehicles, one a Lincoln Town Car and the other a compact.

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