{"id":134539,"date":"2026-01-15T10:42:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/134539\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T10:42:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:42:20","slug":"wrong-way-driver-on-the-run-after-chase-up-i-5-from-us-mexico-border-to-downtown-san-diego-nbc-7-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/134539\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrong-way driver on the run after chase up I-5 from US-Mexico border to downtown San Diego \u2013 NBC 7 San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities are still searching for the suspect who caused a dramatic scene on Tuesday night driving the wrong way on Interstate 5 south at high speeds from U.S.-Mexico border to downtown San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>Around 9:30 p.m., a woman was driving the wrong-way at about 80 miles per hour for about 15 minutes when a California Highway Patrol officer tried a pit maneuver, made contact, but ended up crashing into the center divider, according to the agency. <\/p>\n<p>The chase didn&#8217;t come to an end until the woman drove her black Camaro into a truck at C Street before jumping out of her car and running away. The driver of that truck and the CHP officer are both expected to be alright.<\/p>\n<p>The incident caused such a disturbance that another driver had to swerve onto nearby shrubs to avoid the scene.<\/p>\n<p>This is the latest in a string of wrong way crashes around San Diego County, and could have been much worse.<br \/>CHP asks anyone with information to contact them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities are still searching for the suspect who caused a dramatic scene on Tuesday night driving the wrong&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[859,5196,74,76,75,2924],"class_list":["post-134539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-california-highway-patrol","tag-downtown-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-us-mexico-border"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134539","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=134539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}