PARAMOUNT, Calif.- A person trapped inside a vehicle after a collision was killed Wednesday in Paramount.
The collision was reported around 12:23 a.m. Wednesday on the southbound Long Beach (710) Freeway at Rosecrans Avenue, where officers from the California Highway Patrol discovered a Toyota sedan in an embankment on the right side of the freeway with a person trapped inside, according to the CHP.
The crash knocked down a light pole and left several wires exposed.
Firefighters were on scene to try and free the victim from the wreckage, but the person was pronounced dead at the scene.