A high-speed crash killed one person and injured another Saturday morning in the Florence neighborhood of South Los Angeles after the driver of the car slammed into a church.
The car was traveling on Manchester Boulevard when it struck a street light near Central Avenue and plowed into Challenge of Faith church, police said.
Video from the scene showed the exterior of the church heavily damaged in the collision.
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The driver of the car was ejected from the impact of the crash and died at the scene. The passenger was severely injured.
Neither of the occupants of the vehicle were identified by authorities, but the fatal victim was described as a man in his 40s.
According to members of the Challenge of Faith church, Saturday's crash is the fourth instance where a car slammed into their building.
"We’ve been talking to the city to get it taken care of for a number of years. We have not been able to get a solution so we’ll continue trying to get with the city to find a solution that will work so that no more lives will be lost," assistant pastor David Jessie said.
For now, the church has been yellow-tagged by the city.
