CAJON PASS, CA. (Pain In The Pass) >> At least one person is dead after a wrong-way crash closed all southbound lanes on Interstate 15 near Highway 138 for several hours.
California Highway Patrol and San Bernardino County Fire Department responded to the traffic collision involving a wrong way driver according to the CHP traffic log. The first call was about 1:13am Saturday morning November 19, 2022. a witness call 911 for a driver in a gray type sedan traveling northbound in the southbound lane at Highway 138 in the middle lane.
About a minute later they located a major collision on the southbound Interstate 15 between Hwy 138 and Oak Hill Road exit.
The male driver of the van was killed at the scene and several people were transported by ambulance to local hospitals were inside the van.
Authorities say a car going the wrong way hit a van head-on. A total of four vehicles and a semi were involved this collision. There were other vehicles that crash to miss the wrong-way driver prior to the head-on collision.
CHP issued a Sig Alert for all southbound lanes, this caused major traffic delays for motorists coming down from the Cajon Pass. Three left lanes were reopened just after 4am and all lanes reopened by 4:30am. Traffic was backed up for miles causing a traffic nightmare for the early morning commute.
Whether drugs or alcohol were a factor in the incident is under investigation.
We will update this story with more information when the CHP’s preliminary accident report is available. Additional details were limited at this time. This incident will be under investigation by the California Highway Patrol Inland Office.
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