Three killed in fiery crash on northbound I-805, partial reopening of freeway
SAN DIEGO, CA --
Three people were killed Thursday in a fiery multi-vehicle crash on Interstate 805.
Flames were seen leaping from at least one vehicle after the collision, which was reported around 4:35 p.m. near La Jolla Village Drive and Miramar Road in the Sorrento Valley area.
Three people were killed and one person was seriously injured, officials confirmed. The injured person was taken to Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, San Diego Fire-Rescue Department said.
Caltrans closed all northbound lanes on the freeway.
Witnesses reported a wrong-way driver speeding along a stretch of highway near the site of the crash shortly before the accident, California Highway Patrol told FOX 5.
CHP investigators were at Ashley Falls Elementary School in Carmel Valley, where, shortly after 4 p.m., witnesses say a black McLaren smashed through a fence and sped out of the campus parking lot. Investigators are looking into several other incidents involving the luxury sports car, but officials did not say whether the incidents are connected to the deadly freeway crash.
By late Thursday, the two far right lanes of northbound I-805 along with the westbound Miramar Road and eastbound La Jolla Village Drive on-ramps to northbound I-805 had reopened to traffic.
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August 24, 2018
SAN DIEGO, CA (NEWS 8) -
A fiery crash caused by a wrong-way driver killed three people on Interstate 805 in the Miramar area late Thursday afternoon and tangled rush-hour traffic for miles around.
The series of collisions involving as many as five vehicles -- two of which wound up ablaze -- occurred on the northbound side of the freeway near Miramar Road shortly after 4:30 p.m., according to the California Highway Patrol.
Witnesses described seeing a sports car headed south in a northbound carpool lane at about 100 mph just prior to the deadly accident.
The fatally injured people died amid the wreckage of the crumpled vehicles. One person was taken to a hospital for treatment of serious but non- life-threatening trauma, CHP public affairs Officer Jake Sanchez said.
The accident forced a closure of the northbound side of the freeway between Miramar Road and Sorrento Valley into the early evening.
By late Thursday night, Cal Trans reported that the far right lane on northbound I-805 at La Jolla Village Drive and Miramar Road was open to traffic. Also, Eastbound La Jolla Village Drive on-ramp to northbound I-805 had been reopened to traffic.
