Three killed, three critically injured after car plows into pedestrians in Los Angeles

The three injured people were taken to area hospitals for treatment, according to an online statement posted by the Los Angeles Fire Department.

A vehicle plowed into a group of pedestrians in the North Hollywood district of Los Angeles on Tuesday, killing three people and leaving at least three others critically injured, the city fire department reported.

The three injured people were taken to area hospitals for treatment, according to an online statement posted by the Los Angeles Fire Department.

There were no official details immediately available on the circumstances of the incident, which occurred shortly before 6 p.m.

But local television station KCAL-TV, a CBS News affiliate, reported that a car crashed into a food stand near a bus stop along a major thoroughfare, Lankershim Boulevard, that runs through the busy NoHo commercial and arts district in the city's San Fernando Valley.

SUV runs into side of mass-transit shelter

Aerial news video footage of the scene from KCAL showed a white-colored, partially crumpled small SUV that appeared to have run up onto the sidewalk under a blue canopy and into the side of a mass-transit shelter structure.