WESTWOOD, LOS ANGELES (KABC) — A passing vehicle's harrowing dashboard camera video emerged that shows a car slamming into a 99 Ranch Market in Westwood, as details came to light Friday about the three victims who were killed in the high-speed crash.
The dramatic footage was recorded by a camera mounted onboard a car that was making a right turn outside the grocery store on Thursday, just as the elderly driver barreled into the grocery store's front entrance.
Two of the people who were killed in Thursday's crash were employees of the 99 Ranch Market, and the third was a customer.
On Friday, the Los Angeles Medical Examiner's Office identified one of the victims as Deris Renoj. She was 42.
The other victims were a man in his 50s and a man his 20s. They were all inside the store's bakery at the time of the crash.
The driver, only identified as a woman in her 70s, hit a bicyclist and then continued down the road and crashed into the 99 Ranch Market. Some individuals were initially trapped underneath the vehicle, the department's Lyndsey Lantz told Eyewitness News.
Los Angeles police say they do not believe the crash was intentional and are looking into whether a medical issue may have caused the driver to lose control.
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Four injured victims were transported to the hospital: two 35-year-old men in critical condition, and two other men – ages 37 and 38 – in fair condition.
The bicyclist who was initially struck and the driver of the vehicle declined LAFD treatment and also declined to be transported to the hospital, LAFD said.
"We were actually across the street yesterday and we saw the driver hit a lady in the crosswalk on a bike," Nicholas Reed told ABC7 on Friday. "I skated back to make sure the lady on the bike was OK, and she was fine.
"Then I saw them doing CPR and it was just horrific, you know?" Reed said, referring to emergency responders tending to the crash's multiple victims.
The driver was described as an elderly woman who is cooperating with investigators and is undergoing a medical evaluation, LAFD Capt. Erik Scott said.
"This does not seem to be of any ill intent," Scott said. "(The crash) does not seem to be an intentional act, but rather being investigated, so far, as an accidental traffic collision."
Residents stopped outside the grocery store to pay their respects, leaving behind candles, flowers and messages for the victims.
The grocery store remains closed, and it's unclear when it will reopen.
