Crime & Safety

North Hollywood Man Dies in 405 Crash

John Paul Giosa, 42, veered his black 1998 Volkswagen Beetle off the freeway near Howard Hughes Parkway for unknown reasons and struck a concrete overpass pillar at 4:04 a.m. Sunday.

A motorist who was killed when he crashed into a concrete freeway pillar along the northbound San Diego (405) Freeway was identified today as a North Hollywood resident.

John Paul Giosa, 42, veered his black 1998 Volkswagen Beetle off the freeway near Howard Hughes Parkway for unknown reasons and struck a concrete overpass pillar at 4:04 a.m. Sunday, according to California Highway Patrol.

Giosa died at the scene, and there was no one else in the car, according to the CHP.

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