Los Angeles, CA, October 26 – A car crashed into an eastbound Metro bus in Los Angeles, and the person inside the car was taken to the hospital with injuries that were not considered life-threatening. According to police, the car reportedly ran a red light before striking the bus. The collision remains under review, and officials have not released additional information about how it occurred or who was involved.
Los Angeles Car Crash With Metro Bus at Sixth and Hill Streets Injures One
The crash happened around 2:30 a.m. on October 26, 2026, at the intersection of Sixth and Hill streets in Los Angeles. According to police, a car ran a red light and collided with a Metro bus that was traveling eastbound on Sixth Street. A person inside the car was hurt in the collision.
That person was taken to the hospital after the crash, suffering injuries that police described as non-life-threatening. No other injuries have been reported in connection with the collision. Police have not indicated whether the injured person was driving the car or riding as a passenger, and no information about the extent of the treatment required has been released.
The crash remains under investigation, and police have not released additional details beyond their initial account that the car ran a red light before striking the bus, including whether any citations were issued. It is also not yet known whether anyone aboard the bus was injured, or how many passengers were on board at the time. No further updates had been made public as of this report.
Why evidence in a commercial vehicle case has a deadline of its own
A collision involving a commercial vehicle is not simply a larger car accident. The carrier holds records the other driver never has: electronic logging data, maintenance and inspection history, dispatch instructions and driver qualification files.
Those records are the best evidence of what happened and they do not last indefinitely. Retention periods are measured in months for some categories, so the window to preserve them can close long before the deadline to file a lawsuit does. A preservation demand sent early is the step that keeps them available.
The deadline that applies to a claim like this one
Code of Civil Procedure section 335.1 gives two years for an action for injury to, or for the death of, an individual caused by the wrongful act or neglect of another. The same two years covers an injury claim and a death claim; there is no separate, shorter period because someone died.
If a public agency may be involved, the deadline is much shorter
Where a city, county, transit agency, school district or state agency is a potential defendant, Government Code section 911.2 requires a written claim to be presented to that entity within six months. The six months runs from when the claim accrues, and the claim is presented to the entity itself: a school district and a city are separate public entities with separate processes.
Two things follow that are easy to get wrong. The six months is the deadline to present the claim, not the deadline to sue, and it attaches to the public entity as a defendant rather than to the location of the crash, so a case with both a private and a public defendant is not entirely governed by it. Once the entity mails a written rejection, Government Code section 945.6 allows six months to file suit, which is shorter than the window that just closed. If no written rejection is ever sent, that period is two years from accrual.
Missing the six months is not automatically the end of it. Government Code section 911.6(b) requires the board to grant a late claim application on any of six grounds, including where the person was a minor, or was physically or mentally incapacitated, for the whole of the six months or for any part of it.
Talking to someone about it
Culver Legal represents people injured in collisions across California. A conversation about what happened costs nothing, and we work on a contingency fee, which means there is no fee unless we win. If we do not win, we do not pass the case costs on to you either.
Nothing on this page is legal advice about any particular case, and the facts of a reported collision often change as the investigation continues.
