Crazed cretin throws electric scooter off LA freeway overpass, causing multiple-car crash
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“A destructive vandal hurled an electric scooter from a freeway overpass in Los Angeles early Tuesday, causing a chain-reaction crash below involving seven vehicles.”
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Multiple independent sources (ABC7 Los Angeles and other web results) confirm an electric scooter was thrown from an overpass onto the 110 freeway on a Tuesday, causing a crash involving seven vehicles.
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— Introduction Electric scooters are fun, efficient, and eco-friendly ways to get around, especially in bustling cities like Tauranga and Auckland, NZ. But like any piece of technology, they come with t…
https://electricscootershop.co.nz/
https://electricscootershop.co.nz/
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— 4 days ago · The meaning of ELECTRIC is of, relating to, or operated by electricity. How to use electric in a sentence. Did you know?
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/electric
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/electric
“The incident occurred shortly after midnight, when the suspect launched the scooter from the Adams Boulevard overpass onto the northbound lanes of Interstate 110 in downtown LA”
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Two independent sources specify the location as the Adams Boulevard overpass onto the northbound lanes of the 110 Freeway in downtown LA, occurring early Tuesday/overnight.
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— An electric scooter was apparently thrown onto the 110 Freeway, triggering a seven-car crash in South Los Angeles overnight.Multiple drivers were forced to pull over after someone tossed the electric …
https://abc7.com/post/cars-damaged-electric-scooter-tossed-1…
https://abc7.com/post/cars-damaged-electric-scooter-tossed-1…
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— An electric scooter was tossed onto the Interstate 110, creating a massive pileup and multiple crashes.The scooter was thrown off an overpass early Tuesday morning. The plunging scooter forced multipl…
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/crazed-cretin-throws-lim…
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/crazed-cretin-throws-lim…
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— A seven-car crash occurred on the Northbound 110 Freeway after a scooter was thrown from a DTLA overpass. Learn about your rights and options.
https://jnylaw.com/blog/scooter-thrown-onto-110-freeway-in-d…
https://jnylaw.com/blog/scooter-thrown-onto-110-freeway-in-d…
“The plunging scooter forced multiple drivers to swerve and pull over, according to the California Highway Patrol.”
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The detail that the CHP stated drivers were forced to swerve and pull over is mentioned in one specific web result. While the general event is corroborated, this specific attribution to the CHP is only explicitly cited in one source provided.
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— CA.gov is the official website for the State of California. You can find and access California services, resources, and more.
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— 15 hours ago · California, constituent state of the United States of America. It was admitted as the 31st state of the union on September 9, 1850, and by the early 1960s it was the most populous U.S. …
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“Authorities confirmed that four vehicles were damaged in the incident”
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ABC7 Los Angeles specifically reports that the CHP said four vehicles sustained damage from the scooter. No other provided source confirms this specific number of damaged vehicles.
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— Four vehicles sustained damage from the scooter, the CHP said.The CHP said there were two separate crashes in the area, in addition to the scooter incident. Meanwhile, another car was potentially stru…
https://abc7.com/post/cars-damaged-electric-scooter-tossed-1…
https://abc7.com/post/cars-damaged-electric-scooter-tossed-1…
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— Days later, authorities confirmed through DNA tests that the remains found in several locations belonged to him, and the case is now part of an international investigation. #news #truestory #truecrime…
https://www.tiktok.com/discover/amari-oliver-electric-scoote…
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— Department Statement:The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is aware of an incident that occurred this morning at the 2400 block of 126th Street in unincorporated Los Angeles (Willowbrook).
https://california.liveuamap.com/en/2026/21-january-a-total-…
https://california.liveuamap.com/en/2026/21-january-a-total-…
“In a separate incident in South Los Angeles, another vehicle may have been struck by an unidentified object, leaving an SUV with a shattered front windshield.”
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ABC7 Los Angeles mentions that 'another car was potentially struck by another object in South Los Angeles.' Other search results for 'shattered windshield' refer to unrelated incidents (United Airlines, Massachusetts ice, etc.), leaving the ABC7 report as the only relevant source for this specific claim.
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— A United Airlines flight was forced to divert after an unidentified object struck its windshield at 36,000 feet, injuring the pilot. Investigators are probing whether a weather balloon, meteor, or spa…
https://www.ibtimes.com/what-hit-united-airlines-jet-investi…
https://www.ibtimes.com/what-hit-united-airlines-jet-investi…
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— Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has repeatedly urged restraint from all sides. 'Peaceful protest is a constitutional right,' Bass wrote on X. 'I urge Angelenos to exercise that right safely and not give …
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/carried-hood-ice-suv-sends-protest…
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— A driver escaped serious injury this weekend when a sheet of ice crashed through her windshield on Interstate 495 in Massachusetts. “All of a sudden, in the left-hand lane, I see this car that was way…
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