A woman was clipped by a car and knocked unconscious during a rowdy ‘street takeover’ event at a notorious Los Angeles intersection.
The incident occurred at the corner of Crenshaw Boulevard and West 63rd Street in the Hyde Park neighborhood. Over the weekend, the intersection was plagued by outbreaks of lawless activity, including a vehicle being set on fire.
In footage uploaded to social media, a blonde woman stands in the way of a black sedan as it makes doughnuts. As the vehicle swings around, it clips the woman and sends her flying through the air. She hits the pavement and rolls onto her back, out cold.
Members of the crowd rush over, with two onlookers frantically fanning her face. A person grabs her arm and tries to lift her limp body before the video cuts out.
It is unclear whether the woman was seriously injured. DailyMail.com contacted the Los Angeles Police Department for more information.
Video posted on social media shows a woman hit by a car and thrown to the ground at a notorious intersection in Los Angeles
As a black sedan does donuts, it clips the woman and sends her flying to the ground, where she lies unconscious. The incident occurred at the intersection of Crenshaw Boulevard and West 63rd Street in Hyde Park
Street takeovers, also known as sideshows, are informal demonstrations of car stunts often held at public intersections.
Drivers burn their tires and perform tricks as crowds of spectators watch. The meetings are also subject to bouts of gun violence and fatal crashes.
The police estimate that 50 cars were involved in the weekend street takeover. The crowd began to break up when officers arrived around 3:30 a.m. Saturday.
That morning, a jeep was doused with gasoline and set on fire in the middle of the intersection when another vehicle did donuts around it.
No injuries were reported and no arrests were made, officials said.
In December 2022, an encounter just down the street turned deadly when a woman was pinned between a lamppost and an out-of-control Chevy Camaro.
Three cars were speeding and doing donuts at the intersection of Florence Avenue and Crenshaw Boulevard when one of the drivers lost control and plowed into a crowd that had gathered on the sidewalk.
Elyzza Guajaca, a 24-year-old nursing student, was taken to hospital and later died from her injuries.
On Saturday morning, a Jeep was doused with gasoline and set on fire at the same intersection. The vehicle caught fire in the middle of the street as another car did donuts around it
Nursing student Elyzza Guajaca, 24, was killed just down the street in 2022 after an out-of-control driver drove into a crowd and pinned her between a lamppost and his vehicle
Surveillance video showed the Camaro driver climbing out of the car and fleeing on foot after getting into a fight with witnesses.
That man, identified as 28-year-old Dante Chapple Young, fled to Arizona before being arrested outside Albuquerque, New Mexico.
He was charged with murder and had his bail set at $2.2 million.
Early last month, the Los Angeles City Council voted 12 to 1 to launch a pilot program at 20 intersections to combat street takeovers.
Raised center lines will be installed to discourage drivers from pulling stunts, officials said. The program will cost $80,000.
Speaking to KTLA last year, LAPD Detective Ryan Moreno condemned the illegal meetings in the wake of Guajaca’s death.
‘People are run over, hit, people are attacked, assaulted. We’re like, “Where’s the police report?” and they never come forward,” Moreno said.
“It’s a bit sick in a way. This culture is, that’s kind of what they do.
“It’s kind of like a code I guess they go for where someone would be beaten almost to death and they don’t come forward to be a victim.”