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Two LAPD Officers Hospitalized After Two-Car Crash in South LA

One of the officers was rescued by firefighters from the wreckage.

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Two Los Angeles Police Department officers were hospitalized following a two-vehicle crash Wednesday night in a South Los Angeles neighborhood.

The crash occurred in the 1000 block of East Vernon Avenue, near Central Avenue, about 10:20 p.m.

Firefighters worked to free a trapped officer and a second officer was out of the vehicle and being assessed for injuries, according to Margaret Stewart of the Los Angeles Fire Department. Both officers and one person in the second vehicle were taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, Stewart said.

Circumstances of what led up to the crash were not immediately available from police.

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