![]() Monday's shutdown was put in place at La Cienega Boulevard. Above, traffic comes to a stand still on the northbound and the southbound lanes of the Interstate 405 freeway near Los Angeles International Aiprort on November 23, 2011. Los Angeles' 405 Freeway was shut down in both directions on Monday, causing a miles-long traffic buildup. Last month, a party bus led police on a chase across Southern California before rear-ending a sedan in Los Angeles County. Earlier in March, a television journalist reporting on a fatal hit-and-run was interrupted by a separate crash during the broadcast. Los Angeles has seen several high-profile crashes in recent weeks, including one on Sunday night that led to a manhunt after a Tesla driver performed a dangerous airborne stunt and collided with two parked cars before fleeing the scene. Two people were hospitalized after the collision, according to the news station. Several lanes of the freeway in Van Nuys, a neighborhood in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley region, were shut down on Friday after a crash that involved at least eight cars and one big rig, KABC-TV reported. This was not the first traffic disruption on the 405 Freeway in recent days. ![]() KCBS reported that the man was taken into custody, but Newsweek was not able to reach the department for confirmation by publication time. The Inglewood Police Department confirmed to Newsweek that a man had been on a bridge over the freeway but that he walked off of the bridge on his own. It was shut down for a total of about two hours. The backup was so long that some drivers exited their cars to sit on the freeway's concrete divider, while some vehicles turned their cars around and drove in the wrong direction in order to get off the congested road, KCBS reported. ![]() Los Angeles' 405 freeway was shut down in both directions on Monday, causing a miles-long traffic buildup. ![]()
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