The story of Los Angeles · September 27 to October 27
A near-normal month, then a final week of road hazards from Downtown out
The last weekend added two fatal freeway-area collisions, overnight closures on five routes and a South Bay outage for 11,607 Edison customers.
50 Downtown LA road hazard reports in the final week
For most of the last 30 days, Los Angeles ran close to its usual pattern. There were 59,373 vandalism reports against a normal 64,615, 11,928 road hazard reports against 12,086, and 491 weather alerts against 511. Police reports logged so far sit well below usual, with 724 theft reports against a normal 4,132 and 607 assault reports against 3,015.
The change came in the final week, and it was local. Downtown LA had 50 road hazard reports against a usual 9. Reseda had 14, East Hollywood 12, Mid-Wilshire 10 and San Pedro 9, where about 1 a week or fewer is typical. Vandalism reports also bunched up, with 19 near Highland Park and 14 near Chinatown.
The last weekend was busy on the roads. The highway patrol logged a fatal collision at Avalon Boulevard and East 122nd Street in Watts on Sunday night, and another on the northbound 57 at Brea Canyon Road near Diamond Bar, where a SigAlert is still active. Caltrans lists overnight full closures on the 101, 110, 71, 47 and 14.
In the South Bay, an outage affecting 11,607 Southern California Edison customers near Manhattan and Hermosa Beach stayed on the state outage list for about 24 hours.