Four people are injured after car plows through homeless encampment in Los ...

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Four people have been injured after a car crash at an LA intersection caused one vehicle to careen into a homeless encampment, officials said. 

At approximately 6am, a silver Toyota Corolla traveling east on 5th street in the Koreatown neighborhood hit a white Dodge Dart at the intersection of South Virgil Avenue, the Los Angeles Fire Department said. 

The Dodge smashed into a homeless encampment and struck a palm tree alongside the road. A homeless man who had been asleep on a couch on the sidewalk was left pinned between the car and the tree. 

The 65-year-old man was 'alert and speaking' when emergency services arrived, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Fire fighters used their 'Heavy Rescue 3' crane to lift the vehicle up off the trapped man.