{"id":252316,"date":"2026-04-05T01:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T01:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/252316\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T01:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T01:28:07","slug":"sigalert-issued-on-sr-78-after-head-on-crash-kills-two-nbc-7-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/252316\/","title":{"rendered":"SigAlert issued on SR-78 after head-on crash kills two \u2013 NBC 7 San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sigalert.com\/map.asp?lat=33.10761&amp;lon=-116.52176&amp;z=0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SigAlert<\/a> was issued for SR\u201178 just before 3 p.m. Saturday after a head\u2011on traffic collision east of Julian that left two people dead and two others injured, according to CAL FIRE San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>The hard closure in both directions of the SR-78, between Scissor Crossing and Banner Ranch, is expected to last approximately 5 to 6 hours, according to the California Highway Patrol. <\/p>\n<p>The  crash involving two vehicles occurred near Mastros Trailer Park Road.<\/p>\n<p>CAL FIRE confirmed to NBC 7 that two people were pronounced dead at the scene. Two were airlifted to local trauma centers for treatment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A SigAlert was issued for SR\u201178 just before 3 p.m. Saturday after a head\u2011on traffic collision east of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2258,74,76,75,821,10705],"class_list":{"0":"post-252316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-julian","9":"tag-san-diego","10":"tag-san-diego-headlines","11":"tag-san-diego-news","12":"tag-traffic","13":"tag-traffic-alert"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252316","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=252316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}