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3 hurt, including child, as driver slams into South LA children's dental clinic

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Three people, including at least one child, were hurt when a driver slammed into a South Los Angeles children’s dental office Thursday evening.

The condition of the victims was not immediately known, but the Los Angeles Fire Department said one of them was a girl and another a woman.

The driver hit Amor Kids Dentistry at 5877 S. Vermont Ave. around 4:37 p.m. The man behind the wheel initially fled but was later apprehended, the Los Angeles Police Department said.

The incident is being investigated as a possible hit-and-run. The LAPD couldn’t immediately say whether the man was impaired at the time of the crash.

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