Los Angeles, CA, November 1 – A rollover crash on a Los Angeles freeway left at least one person dead on Sunday afternoon, the California Highway Patrol reported. The collision, which involved a tow truck, caused one of the vehicles to flip and land in the roadway. A coroner representative responded to the scene, and both vehicles were eventually towed away by crews once the lanes were cleared.
Los Angeles Rollover Crash Involving Tow Truck on 110 Freeway Leaves One Dead
The two vehicles collided around 2:47 p.m. on November 1, 2026, on the northbound 110 Freeway near West Vernon Avenue, the California Highway Patrol said. A silver Honda Civic overturned after the collision with a flatbed tow truck, landing on its roof in the travel lanes. The agency reported that at least one person died in the crash.
Following the fatal crash, a representative from the coroner’s office responded to the scene, the California Highway Patrol reported. Crews towed away both the Honda Civic and the flatbed tow truck once the scene was cleared. Because the flatbed had been en route to tow a black Lexus before the crash, a second tow truck was brought in to complete that job.
The California Highway Patrol has not released additional details about the crash. It is not known how many people were in either vehicle, whether anyone else was injured, or what led to the collision. The identity of the person killed has not been made public, and no cause has been determined 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.
Who is entitled to bring a claim when someone is killed
Code of Civil Procedure section 377.60 decides who may bring a wrongful death action. The first group is the surviving spouse, domestic partner, children and the issue of deceased children, or, where there is no surviving issue, whoever would take the estate by intestate succession.
A second group may bring the action only if they were financially dependent on the person who died: a putative spouse and their children, stepchildren, parents, and the legal guardians of the person who died where the parents are deceased. Parents are in that second group, which is the part families are most often surprised by, because dependency has to be shown rather than assumed.
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.
