An injury collision in Malibu Canyon has cut off traffic going both directions on Las Virgenes Road as of 7 p.m. Thursday. The road reopened at 8:50 according to preliminary police reports.
Malibu firefighters received the call at 5:28 p.m. that a small northbound passenger vehicle collided head-on with a semi truck between the tunnel and sheriff’s memorial according to Tim Scott a Malibu firefighter and paramedic who responded to the crash.
The only injured party a 63-year-old man was airlifted in a helicopter from Alumni Park around 6:30 p.m. after rescuers removed him from the crushed remains of his car which was pinned beneath the semi.
Scott said the man was in critical but stable condition. He remained conscious the whole time.
“The whole front of the car— from the front bumper to the windshield— was crushed to about a foot thick Scott said. It was so messed up you couldn’t even tell what it was.”
Four fire trucks one ambulance and a helicopter responded to the collision. Scott said Alumni Park is a designated landing zone for medical emergencies for anything happening in Malibu.
He also said in the course of a year an average of about two accidents per month happen on Malibu Canyon between spinning out cars going over the side and collisions.
“Many get cleared out quickly and no one knows about them Scott said, but something like this— it shuts down the whole canyon so everyone knows about it.”