{"id":116081,"date":"2026-01-01T09:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T09:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/116081\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T09:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T09:15:09","slug":"sinkhole-temporarily-closes-prominent-intersection-in-coronado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/116081\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinkhole temporarily closes prominent intersection in Coronado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/La-Mesa-aftermath-4.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/La-Mesa-aftermath-4.jpg\" alt=\"A Coronado police officer stands guard outside the La Mesa Police Department as repairs were made by area volunteers Sunday morning\" class=\"wp-image-115488\"  \/><\/a>A Coronado police officer. (Photo by Chris Stone\/Times of San Diego)<\/p>\n<p>A deep sinkhole Wednesday temporarily closed a prominent intersection in the middle of Coronado.<\/p>\n<p>The 5-foot-deep sinkhole located near the intersection of Orange and Fourth avenues was reported to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coronado.ca.us\/1043\/Police\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Coronado Police Department<\/a> about 9:20 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Police said officers diverted traffic around the sinkhole, which blocked a lane on Fourth Avenue in the middle of the island city, which is connected to the mainland by the Coronado Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the sinkhole was unclear.<\/p>\n<p>Water department crews were on the scene by 10 a.m. Wednesday, sparking speculation a broken water main may have led to the fissure.<\/p>\n<p>All lanes of traffic were reopened by 11 p.m., according to Caltrans.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Coronado police officer. (Photo by Chris Stone\/Times of San Diego) A deep sinkhole Wednesday temporarily closed a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[5555,52188,74,76,75,61837,61838,61839],"class_list":["post-116081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-coronado-police-department","tag-intersection-closed","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-sinkhole","tag-traffic-diverted","tag-water-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}