Photos: LAFD Crews Free Driver Pinned in Vehicle

Rick McClure offers some photos of City of Los Angeles (CA) firefighters working to free a driver trapped after a vehicle collision earlier this month.

Two seriously injured people were trapped in the wreckage of their compact SUV before being skillfully rescued by Los Angeles firefighters following the crash of as many as four vehicles at the intersection of Sherman Way and Balboa Boulevard on the evening of December 13, 2021. 

As many as four vehicles were involved in the crash at 7200 N. Balboa Blvd. in Lake Balboa, with two people trapped inside vehicles, Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey reported. 

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