Car Flips in Crash at Sepulveda/PCH and Longfellow

A crash at Longfellow Avenue and Sepulveda Boulevard on Thursday afternoon resulted in a car flipping over onto its roof.

No one was seriously injured in the collision that police said occurred at about 4:45 p.m., and backed up traffic in the southbound lanes of Sepulveda for about an hour.

Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach police responded to the crash at the intersection on the border of the two cities.

The two cars involved were southbound in the center and outside lanes on Sepulveda, traveling at about 20 mph, said a Manhattan Beach officer at the scene. 

The car in the center lane, a light gray Toyota, attempted to make a right turn onto Longfellow, crossing into the path of the car in the outside lane.

The driver of the car in the outside lane, Natalia Vargas, 30, attempted to swerve onto Longfellow to avoid a collision, she said, but the Toyota pinned her dark gray Acura against the curb and forced it to flip over.

Vargas, of Hawthorne, told Patch that her car then slid on the slight downgrade and came to rest on the south side of Longfellow.

A passenger in the Toyota, whose name officers would not release, complained of neck pain and was taken by ambulance to Little Company of Mary Hospital.

Though visibly shaken, Vargas used her smart phone to shoot video of her car being dragged onto a wrecker.