Wrong-way driver causes multi-vehicle crash on 101 Freeway in Hollywood

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A vehicle driven northbound in southbound lanes of the Hollywood (101) Freeway in Hollywood early Monday caused a crash involving at least six vehicles that sent at least one person to a hospital.

Witnesses told the California Highway Patrol the vehicle entered the southbound freeway headed northbound at the Sunset Boulevard off-ramp at 1:59 a.m. resulting in multiple crashes and sending debris flying across all lanes.

CHP officers stopped traffic just north of Gower Street as at least six tow trucks arrived to clear wreckage and started letting traffic through the slow lane, the CHP reported. The road was cleared for traffic at 3:30 a.m.

A news videographer at the scene said paramedics took at least one person to a hospital and that patient was in critical condition.

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