Three people were injured after a speeding vehicle careened into a Subway restaurant and a neighboring home in Van Nuys Friday night, and new information from police indicates the driver was an unlicensed teenager.
Preliminary reports indicate the crash happened around 10:30 p.m. on Saticoy Street east of Sepulveda Boulevard.
Surveillance footage obtained by KTLA shows the vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed before losing control and smashing into the Subway.
The car crashed through the restaurant’s outdoor seating area before colliding with a BMW sedan, flipping over into an adjacent driveway and coming to rest on top of four other vehicles, according to initial reports.
Sky5 was overhead moments after the crash and captured a large crowd outside the home gathering to look at the wreckage.
“We were in the living room and we heard a loud crash, so we ran out and saw the car flipped,” one woman told KTLA 5’s Omar Lewis.
Other witnesses told Lewis that drug paraphernalia was found near the crash site and that at least one of the victims was ejected from the vehicle.
Of the three victims, two were confirmed to be teens; they were both hospitalized in critical condition.
According to the initial police report, the driver was identified as an unlicensed and uninsured 15-year-old.
No word on the condition or the age of the third victim has been released, and none of them have been identified.
Saticoy Street was shut down in the aftermath of the crash but has since been reopened.
The Los Angeles Police Department is leading the investigation into what caused the collision.