I heard the telltale screeching tires and what sounded like a rollover crash (you know you've lived next to a freeway for too long...), but could not see what happened from my house. Traffic slowed briefly, but continued on at high speeds within minutes.
Unaware of what was going on, 10 minutes later, I finally heard a siren and saw a very large LAFD ladder truck trying to make a left turn onto Corralitas. At which point, I grabbed my camera & walked down the hill. I saw no fire. The ladder truck eventually backed out onto Rosebud and then Allesandro, unable to make the turn. I did see at least a dozen neighbors coming down from the 2 Freeway from the other side of the fence. A compact LAFD Engine 220 was at the end of the Corralitas.
Neighbors reported trying to help the driver and they were afraid the car would catch fire as the car was smoking for quite a while. A couple of neighbors said it was a good 10 to 15 minutes from the time they called 911 to the time the first fire engine showed up.
Neighbors also report there was debris, including a tire, strewn quite a ways into the Red Car Property. They tossed it all back over the fence.
It's also lucky there was no fire. The Red Car Property has yet to be cleared of brush and CalTrans has an awful lot of dead branches in the freeway parkway.
