A driver was rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries after an early-morning crash near the VA Hospital that shut down a stretch of Bellflower Boulevard today, police said.
The wreck happened around 5:45 a.m. when a 26-year-old man in a Honda Fit pulled away from the curb on southbound Bellflower and started to make an illegal U-turn just north of Seventh Street, according to police.
While turning, the Fit collided with a Lexus that was headed southbound on Bellflower, Long Beach Police Department spokeswoman Jennifer De Prez said. A bystander tended to the Fit’s driver until paramedics arrived and took him to a local hospital, De Prez said.
The 25-year-old woman driving the Lexus wasn’t hurt, police said. Her car also hit a parked truck after the crash with the Fit, according to De Prez.
Police are still investigating, but the street has reopened, De Prez said.