Category: I-5

Water Main Breaks Caused Freeway Closures Near Balboa Park

SAN DIEGO—A stretch of Interstate 5 (I-5) and several freeway connector ramps in the bustling downtown area were closed to through traffic on Nov. 22, as a result of water-main breaks in the East Village and the south end of Balboa Park over the weekend. The first of the two pipeline failures began flooding traffic lanes at A Street…


Water Main Breaks Causing Freeway Closures Near Balboa Park

SAN DIEGO—A stretch of Interstate 5 (I-5) and several freeway connector ramps in the bustling downtown area were closed to through traffic on Nov. 22, as a result of water-main breaks in the East Village and the south end of Balboa Park over the weekend. The first of the two pipeline failures began flooding traffic lanes at A Street…


Three Injured in Hit-Run Crash Involving Towed Boat on I-5 in Chula Vista

CHULA VISTA, Calif.—Three people were injured early Oct. 25, two seriously, when their car collided with a boat that had fallen off a trailer on Interstate 5 near San Diego Bay, authorities reported. The crash occurred about 12:30 a.m. on northbound Interstate 5, north of Palomar Street in Chula Vista, according to the California Highway…


Tustin Crash Kills 24-Year-Old Woman 

A 24-year-old Anaheim woman is dead following a Feb. 23 suspected impaired driving-related crash in Tustin. The woman was a passenger in a BMW sedan heading southbound on the 55 Freeway, just north of the I-5 freeway, California Highway Patrol (CHP) said. The car she was riding in crashed into the back of a Lexus SUV about 2:05…