Early Saturday morning, a single-vehicle crash near Long Beach Airport turned a busy airport approach into a grim scene, with a car engulfed in flames and multiple people dead, according to early reports. The wreck happened on Lakewood Boulevard just south of Spring Street, and initial accounts say several occupants were trapped inside the burning vehicle. Authorities shut down the area while investigators started working to figure out what led to the crash.
Preliminary dispatch logs and local reporting indicate the collision happened at about 1:30 a.m. Saturday, when a vehicle slammed into a pillar near the airport and burst into flames, trapping people inside, according to OnScene. Early counts from those reports put the death toll at at least three people, with…..