One man was killed and another is hospitalized Tuesday following a crash in Woodland Hills where police say the driver was under the influence.
Los Angeles Police Department officers responded at to the 5900 block of Valley Circle Boulevard and El Canon Avenue at 1:25 a.m. Tuesday where they found the victims inside the vehicle, which had slammed into a tree, an LAPD spokesman told City News Service.
Los Angeles firefighters work on a car that crashed into a tree early Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026, on Valley Circle Boulevard and El Canon Avenue in Woodland Hills. The driver, who police suspect was under the influence, survived and was hospitalized. A passenger was killed. (Image from video by Josiah Valenzuela/Key News Network)
Los Angeles firefighters work on a car that crashed into a tree early Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026, on Valley Circle Boulevard and El Canon Avenue in Woodland Hills. The driver, who police suspect was under the influence, survived and was hospitalized. A passenger was killed. (Image from video by Josiah Valenzuela/Key News Network)
Los Angeles firefighters work on a car that crashed into a tree early Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026, on Valley Circle Boulevard and El Canon Avenue in Woodland Hills. The driver, who police suspect was under the influence, survived and was hospitalized. A passenger was killed. (Image from video by Josiah Valenzuela/Key News Network)
Los Angeles firefighters work on a car that crashed into a tree early Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026, on Valley Circle Boulevard and El Canon Avenue in Woodland Hills. The driver, who police suspect was under the influence, survived and was hospitalized. A passenger was killed. (Image from video by Josiah Valenzuela/Key News Network)
Los Angeles firefighters work on a car that crashed into a tree early Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026, on Valley Circle Boulevard and El Canon Avenue in Woodland Hills. The driver, who police suspect was under the influence, survived and was hospitalized. A passenger was killed. (Image from video by Josiah Valenzuela/Key News Network)
Los Angeles firefighters work on a car that crashed into a tree early Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026, on Valley Circle Boulevard and El Canon Avenue in Woodland Hills. The driver, who police suspect was under the influence, survived and was hospitalized. A passenger was killed. (Image from video by Josiah Valenzuela/Key News Network)
Los Angeles firefighters work on a car that crashed into a tree early Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026, on Valley Circle Boulevard and El Canon Avenue in Woodland Hills. The driver, who police suspect was under the influence, survived and was hospitalized. A passenger was killed. (Image from video by Josiah Valenzuela/Key News Network)
Los Angeles firefighters work on a car that crashed into a tree early Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026, on Valley Circle Boulevard and El Canon Avenue in Woodland Hills. The driver, who police suspect was under the influence, survived and was hospitalized. A passenger was killed. (Image from video by Josiah Valenzuela/Key News Network)
Los Angeles firefighters work on a car that crashed into a tree early Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026, on Valley Circle Boulevard and El Canon Avenue in Woodland Hills. The driver, who police suspect was under the influence, survived and was hospitalized. A passenger was killed. (Image from video by Josiah Valenzuela/Key News Network)
Los Angeles firefighters work on a car that crashed into a tree early Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026, on Valley Circle Boulevard and El Canon Avenue in Woodland Hills. The driver, who police suspect was under the influence, survived and was hospitalized. A passenger was killed. (Image from video by Josiah Valenzuela/Key News Network)
Los Angeles firefighters work on a car that crashed into a tree early Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026, on Valley Circle Boulevard and El Canon Avenue in Woodland Hills. The driver, who police suspect was under the influence, survived and was hospitalized. A passenger was killed. (Image from video by Josiah Valenzuela/Key News Network)
Los Angeles firefighters work on a car that crashed into a tree early Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026, on Valley Circle Boulevard and El Canon Avenue in Woodland Hills. The driver, who police suspect was under the influence, survived and was hospitalized. A passenger was killed. (Image from video by Josiah Valenzuela/Key News Network)
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Los Angeles firefighters work on a car that crashed into a tree early Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026, on Valley Circle Boulevard and El Canon Avenue in Woodland Hills. The driver, who police suspect was under the influence, survived and was hospitalized. A passenger was killed. (Image from video by Josiah Valenzuela/Key News Network)
Los Angeles Fire Department personnel were called to the scene, where they freed the victims from the wreckage, police said.
Paramedics pronounced a passenger in the vehicle dead at the scene.
The driver was taken to a hospital in an unknown condition. According to reports from the scene, the vehicle was traveling at a high rate of speed before the crash.
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