SAN DIEGO (KGTV) \u2013 A La Mesa Police officer and another person were killed in a multi-vehicle collision on Interstate 8 in the College Area late Monday night.<\/p>\n
The California Highway Patrol said the crash happened at around 10:40 p.m. on eastbound I-8 near Waring Road.<\/p>\n
CHP officials said a driver lost control of their vehicle, overturned, and then came to rest on the freeway lanes. That disabled vehicle was then struck by another car.<\/p>\n
According to the CHP, a La Mesa Police officer stopped at the scene and got out to help when he was hit by an oncoming vehicle.<\/p>\n
Another vehicle then struck the vehicles involved in the initial crash, the CHP said.<\/p>\n
CHP officials confirmed the LMPD officer and a driver involved in the collision died at the scene.<\/p>\n
Multiple people were injured in the crash and taken to the hospital, but their conditions were unknown.<\/p>\n
As of 4 a.m. Tuesday, all eastbound I-8 lanes were closed between Fairmount Avenue and College Avenue. The closure was expected to last for several hours.<\/p>\n
The CHP said eastbound traffic was being diverted to southbound Interstate 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (KGTV) \u2013 A La Mesa Police officer and another person were killed in a multi-vehicle collision…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[852,13736,13737,13738,74,76,75,13739],"class_list":["post-15805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-chp","tag-college-area-crash","tag-i8-crash","tag-la-mesa-police","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-waring-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15805","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=15805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}