Hollywood road rage: Woman dies, accidentally run over by friend

A woman died after being run over by her friend in a chaotic road rage incident early Tuesday in Hollywood.

The names of the two women — one dead, one now arrested — have not yet been released.

The confrontation that led to the death began around midnight on Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles police told TV station KTLA. The two women were in a Mercedes-Benz that apparently was involved in a minor collision with a motorcycle. When the motorcyclist turned onto Martel Avenue, a residential street, the women pursued him.

In front of an apartment complex on Martel, the passenger got out of the car to confront the motorcyclist.

In maneuvering the Mercedes, its driver — described only as a 26-year-old woman — hit a tree and was partly ejected from the car, becoming pinned between the car and the tree. Her friend ran back to the vehicle and tried to move it, and ended up running over the other woman.

As her friend lay mortally injured, the woman fled on foot. She was arrested sometime before 8 a.m. Police would not say where she was arrested or how she was located.

The motorcyclist remained on the scene and cooperated with police.