[dropcap size=big]D[/dropcap]ramatic video footage shows the moment a 23-year-old Compton woman's vehicle was impaled by a speeding car that appeared to be in a street race with another vehicle in South Los Angeles Saturday. The woman, Bethany Holguin, was killed immediately on impact and the driver of the other car got out and fled the scene in the vehicle of his racing counterpart.
The scene was just one of several hit-and-runs to plague the Los Angeles area in recent days.
A man was in custody in after he allegedly fled the scene of hit-in-run on the 91 Freeway in Corona, where a woman was killed after she got out of her car to check on a dog. A La Puente woman was recovering from a car crashing into her bedroom late Sunday night. That driver fled the scene on foot. And a week ago, the Highland Park community was shook by the loss of two brothers who were killed in a hit-and-run car crash.
The apparent street race incident occurred in a residential area of the Willowbrook neighborhood at the intersection of Towne Avenue and 131st Street. Holguin was driving through the intersection when the speeding vehicle blew past a stop sign and slammed into her vehicle. Holguin is a mother of two, according to KTLA. Residents in the area told KTLA that drag racing there is common and that it would not stop until "we speak up."