Traffic Accident Traps Woman in Overturned Car, Damages Crosswalk Sign

UPDATE: 6:30 p.m. The woman in the overturned vehicle, Wendy Waagenaar, contacted Patch and is okay. See her comment below, and her photos to the right!

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The LAPD responded to a traffic accident at 9:40 a.m. Monday morning at the 4800 block of Petit Avenue at the Ventura intersection, according to authorities.

Richard Friend, a spokesperson for the LAPD, said that "a couple of vehicles were involved" in the incident, including one that overturned.

"There was some kind of impact with a traffic signal," Friend told Patch Monday morning. "At one point there was a person that was trapped inside the overturned vehicle. It was a woman. They did call in a tow truck and they've probably taken the overturned vehicle, an Explorer, away by now."

The condition of the woman is not known, said Friend.

Click on the photos to the right to see the scene of the accident. A broken crosswalk sign and pole was down at the northeast corner, and what appeared to be broken tail-lights littered the road.

A representative from the Dept. of Transportation at the scene told Patch he was waiting to restore the traffic pole.