Arakelyan hit the hood and fell onto the street, Mankarios said.
He was taken to Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center and was pronounced dead at 3:29 a.m. Sunday.
The driver stopped and remained at the scene, and the crash still is under investigation, Mankarios said.
At 12:15 p.m. that same day, a 28-year-old woman and her 3-year-old daughter and 6-year-old son were injured when an 18-year-old motorist struck them at Glendale and Palmer avenues, Glendale Police Det. Bill Frommling said.
The mother was holding her daughter in her arms and her son pushed the button that lights up the pedestrian cross, signaling to motorists that a pedestrian is crossing the street, Frommling said.
“It appeared to be operating normally,” he said.
The mother and her children waited several seconds and made sure there were no vehicles in the street before they began walking across the street, he said.
A motorist saw the mother and her children and stopped at the crosswalk, Frommling said.
But another motorist, who was going 30 mph, drove past the stopped vehicle and hit the family, he said.
The female motorist stopped 30 feet away with the mother and her daughter still on the car’s windshield, Frommling said.
The mother and her son were taken to Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center, where she was treated for a fractured hip and he received care for several cuts. The daughter was taken to Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles and treated for bruises, Frommling said.
The motorist wasn’t cited or arrested in the crash, he said.
“In a situation like this, not much can be done,” Frommling said. “It turns into a civil issue.”
The motorist was not using a cellphone as people have speculated, he said.
“She just wasn’t paying attention,” Frommling said.
Pedestrians and motorists must watch the road and make sure they make eye contact with one another, he said.
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