Pregnant Driver Slams Into Bellflower Beauty Salon Overnight
BELLFLOWER (CBSLA) – A 21-year-old pregnant woman may have suffered a medical episode which caused her to lose control of her SUV and slam into a beauty salon in Bellflower early Thursday morning, displacing several residents who live above the business.
Just before 1 a.m., security video showed the SUV speeding down the street and then careening through the wall of the salon, which is in a two-story building in the 9300 block of East Los Angeles Street.
The L.A. County Sheriff's Department reports there was no one in the salon at the time, but eight people and several dogs who reside in three apartment on the second floor of the building had to be evacuated over concerns that its structure may have been compromised.
The driver was not seriously hurt, the sheriff's department said. She was taken to a hospital as a precaution. Her boyfriend, Trent Tytasi, told CBS2 that she informed him that she had started feeling light-headed and then passed out.
"She was in pain, but she mostly worried about our baby in her stomach," Trent Tytasi said. "But thank God, having our back, watching over her."
The exact cause of the crash remains under investigation. Deputies told CBS2 the driver was not under the influence of alcohol.
