CA: I-5 collapses Newhall Pass

Scanner | 10/12/07 | me

[BurbankKarl]

Per LA County Fire....Northbound I-5 is collapsing at the scene of a major accident in the truck tunnel.

Incident: 3700 Type: Location: info as of: 10/12/2007 11:17:15 PM ADDITIONAL DETAILS 11:16PM 1039 MEDIA 11:14PM PER LACO FD ** PLS HAVE UNITS CLOSE DOWN ALL LNS - NB 5 AT BALBOA - THE BRIDGE IS STARTING TO COLAPSE 11:13PM 1039 56-S9 ADVISED ROLL 406 OR OTHER AVAILABLE UNIT TO ASSIST - 56-108 ENRT 11:13PM PLS ISSUE SIGALERT FOR THE NB 5 TK LNS TO 14 AND THE SB 5 TK LNS TO 14 - UNK DURATION AT THIS TIME - THANKS 11:08PM 146 ADV 1 PTY JUST CAME OUT OF THE TUNNEL AND HAS A BROKEN LEG AND NEEDS OXYGEN //1039 LACOFD W/INFO 11:07PM 1039 TO 98-S7 WILL HAVE 98-51 ROLL FOR THIS FROM THE OFFICE 11:03PM CT-PLS START FOR A HARD CLOSURE TO SHUT DOWN BOTH THE NB AND SB TK LNS 11:01PM DIVERT TRFC FM NB AND SB TK RT - 511 WILL SHUT DOWN NB TK LNS 11:01PM SEMI ON SB SIDE IS NOW ALSO ON FIRE - PLS ADV LACOFD 11:01PM PLS ADV LACOFD THERE ARE 2 ADDITIONAL O/TURNED VEHS // NB AND SB IM THE TK RT 10:59PM 3-5 SEMI FULLY INVLD - @ THE TUNNELS OF THE TRUCK ROUTE W/ACCESS ISSUES - PER LACOFD 10:59PM ANOTHER O/TURNED JSO 1020 BLOCKING ALL LANES AT TRUCK ROUT ALSO SIERRA HIGWAY 10:58PM 146 POSS PEOPLE STILL TRAPPED 10:57PM PLS GET UPDATED ETA FROM FD 10:57PM 146 PTY TRAPPED INSIDE 10:55PM THIS WILL BE SB TRUCK RD 10:55PM LACOFD 3-5 BIG RIGS FULLY INVOLVED 10:45PM PER RP SEMI TRK EXPLODED & OTHER VEH TC D W/TRK / PCS OF ENGINE ARE ON FIRE IN RDWY 10:44PM 1039 LACO FD 10:44PM RP ADVSED HE AND HIS GRANDMOTHER WERE DRIVING ON NB SIDE AND SAW A YEL BIG RIG EXPLODE, THE WHOLE SKY LIT UP 10:42PM YELLOW SEMI TRUCK ON FIRE, BLOCKING UNK LN RESPONDING OFFICERS STATUS 11:06PM CHP Unit On Scene 11:06PM CHP Unit On Scene 11:09PM CHP Unit Enroute 11:12PM CHP Unit On Scene 11:12PM CHP Unit Enroute 11:12PM CHP Unit Enroute 11:12PM CHP Unit Assigned 11:14PM CHP Unit Enroute

[burzum]

Here is the apparent location

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=34.336101,-118.507719&spn=0.007814,0.020084&t=h&z=16&om=1

[BurbankKarl]

Fire Dept isnt going in until Caltrans engineers arrive and okay it...

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

TANKS,,,more :Ambulance Responding ~~ calls,,,many more...

[JDoutrider]

BOOM Bump

[IYAAYAS]

There should be public traffic camera access, anybody know a link?

[Cindy]

Thank you.

[Global2010]

What time west coast time?
It is close to midnight now.

God help those in danger.

Yes please keep us updated.

Where exactly is this tunnel around LA?

Is it a truck only or do cars go through it too?

[Spktyr]

Geez.... If you can’t drive off the bridge, abandon your vehicle and flee on foot. Cars can be replaced or rebuilt.

[superfluousdude]

http://traffic.tann.net/tanntraffic_trafficmap.php isn’t showing anything video-wise. Video doesn’t seem to be working. KNX 1070 is saying it’s a mess. 3 to 5 big rigs on fire. The interchange is shut down.

[plewis1250]

Balboa Bridge unstable

[Spktyr]

Good. There’s no point in going in when the bloody thing might pull a Nimitz Freeway and collapse on top of you.

[plewis1250]

mms://vengers.no-ip.org/

[Brad’s Gramma]

I tripped across it, trust me....

[BurbankKarl]

if you move up a little, where it says The Old Road, you can see a line that moves UNDER I-5 from left to right...that is the truck tunnel.

If you zoom in, you can see trucks using it, heading southbound. it has less of a grade than I-5

[furquhart]

Three to five big rigs on fire? Explain that for me. So far as I know, those things don’t just catch on fire all the time - let alone three to five of them.

[A_Tradition_Continues]

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=local&id=5705346

[geopyg]

Thanks.

When I hear breaking news like this it is so heartbreaking. To imagine the victims dealing with what they are going through. For them to make the right decisions (leave the car? Go north? Go south?) And pryaers up for wise decisions and safety to the firemen and cops.

[Spktyr]

Part of that is easy - if you can drive no farther, try to drive back, the shoulders are now valid lines of retreat.

If you can’t do that, get out of the car and RUN LIKE HELL.

[Global2010]

Didn’t this happen a few decades ago up in Oakland it was a semi explosion that went through the tunnel like a huge suctions fireball.

Kinda like the tunnel scene in that old Will Smith movie.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

If some other significant “accident” turns up in the next few minutes, that’s going to seem like far more than a weird coincidence.

Already does, sort of. IMHO.