{"id":382512,"date":"2026-07-01T20:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/382512\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T20:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:07:13","slug":"multiple-people-injured-in-wrong-way-crash-on-college-ave-on-ramp-to-i-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/382512\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple people injured in wrong-way crash on College Ave. on-ramp to I-8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO (KGTV) &#8212; A driver was detained by law enforcement Wednesday morning after allegedly driving the wrong way on Interstate 8 in the College Area and crashing into multiple vehicles at an on-ramp.<\/p>\n<p>According to the California Highway Patrol\u2019s incident report, the collision happened just before 10:45 a.m. on the southbound College Avenue on-ramp to westbound I-8.<\/p>\n<p>A San Diego police official told ABC 10News the driver of a black Mercedes-Benz fled from a traffic stop in the area and traveled east on the westbound lanes of I-8 before crashing on the ramp.<\/p>\n<p>The police official said the Mercedes slammed into several vehicles before coming to a stop. Police confirmed the driver was detained.<\/p>\n<p>San Diego Fire-Rescue Department officials told ABC 10News four people \u2014 two in critical condition \u2014 were transported to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>According to Caltrans officials, a Sig Alert was issued at 11:14 a.m. due to the wreck and investigation on the southbound College Avenue ramp to westbound I-8.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.10news.com\/traffic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CHECK TRAFFIC CONDITIONS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (KGTV) &#8212; A driver was detained by law enforcement Wednesday morning after allegedly driving the wrong&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[12494,74,154567,41720,76,75,139239],"class_list":["post-382512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-college-avenue","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-college-area","tag-san-diego-freeway-crash","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382512","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=382512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}