One person was arrested under suspicion of felony driving under the influence following a five-vehicle crash on The Old Road and Rye Canyon Road on Saturday afternoon, according to the California Highway Patrol Newhall-area Office.
According to preliminary information, at approximately 2:57 p.m., a vehicle traveling southbound on The Old Road veered onto oncoming traffic and crashed into two vehicles traveling the opposite direction, according to Officer Carlos Burgos-Lopez, a spokesman for the CHP Newhall office.
The impact caused one of the vehicles to overturn and triggered a chain reaction, leading two additional vehicles to collide, he said.
The driver that veered onto oncoming traffic was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence and at the time of this story’s publication. Two people were injured and transported to the hospital in unknown condition, Burgos-Lopez added.
At the time of the crash, the suspect was traveling with a husky, according to Burgos-Lopez and the CHP Incident logs.
Los Angeles County Animal Care and Control personnel were called to the scene to pick up the dog and take it to the Castaic Animal Care Center, he added.
Fred Fielding, a spokesman for the L.A. County Fire Department, said firefighters were dispatched at 2:58 p.m. to the collision and arrived on the scene in seven minutes and, according to their records, there were no trapped parties and no transports were reported.
