Crime & Safety

Driver Injured After Plunging Off Mulholland Drive

The victim crawls from the car about 50 feet down a hillside and is then hoisted to the road in a basket.

By City News Service

A woman was injured when the car she was driving went 50 feet over the side of Mulholland Drive in the Hollywood Hills Thursday night.

The crash was reported around 7:15 p.m. in the 8000 block of Mulholland Drive, near Laurel Canyon Boulevard, said Katherine Main of the Los Angeles Fire Department.

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The victim crawled from the car about 50 feet down a hillside and was then hoisted to the road in a basket before being taken to a hospital in fair condition, Main said.

The driver was a woman who called police on her cellphone after crashing, reported KCAL9.

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