Traffic & Transit
Wrong-Way Driver Triggers 405 Freeway Pileup In The South Bay
According to the California Highway Patrol, a driver was slowly heading northbound in the southbound lanes, triggering a four-car pileup.
LOS ANGELES, CA — A wrong-way driver triggered a pileup on the San Diego (405) Freeway in the South Bay area Monday, sending cars scattered across the freeway and down an embankment.
The crash happened in the early morning just north of Vermont Avenue. It's the latest in a string of wrong-way crashes plaguing that stretch of the 405 Freeway.
The California Highway Patrol received a report of a car slowly heading northbound in the southbound lanes just before 2:30 a.m. Monday. The car was traveling at about 15 miles an hour, according to the witness. A moment later, authorities received a report of a pileup in the area.
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They found three cars scattered from the fast lane to the slow lane with one vehicle knocked over the side of the freeway and down an embankment. A person was trapped inside the wreckage of the vehicle that went over the side of the freeway, and Los Angeles firefighters worked to free the person.
No injuries were reported, said CHP Officer Peter Nicholson.
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The 405 Freeway has had a string of wrong-way crashes over the last year.
On Halloween, another wrong-way driver triggered a deadly 12-car pileup on the 405-Freeway in Long Beach. Two drivers died in that crash. And in 2020, a wrong-way crash in February on the 405 Freeway near the Getty Center left one person dead. All three wrong-way crashes occurred in the early morning hours.
City News Service contributed to this report.
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