The crashed occurred at 1:50 a.m. Sunday on the northbound freeway at the Third Street on-ramp, the California Highway Patrol reported.
Firefighters and paramedics dispatched to the location pronounced one person dead at the scene and rushed a woman to a hospital in critical condition, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
The gender of the decedent was not immediately known.
A Sigalert issued at 2:11 a.m. closing the northbound lanes of the freeway at West Sixth Street and the connector roads was canceled at 8:30 a.m., the CHP said.
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