The story of Los Angeles · Tuesday, October 27
Road hazard reports stay high as overnight freeway closures stack up
A fatal crash on the 57 in Diamond Bar left a SigAlert in place, and a South Bay power outage for 11,607 customers was still listed.
50 road hazard reports in Downtown LA this week, usual 9
Road hazard reports are the story that kept running today. Downtown LA has 50 this week against a usual 9, and several neighbourhoods, including Reseda, East Hollywood, Mid-Wilshire and San Pedro, are running ten times their normal or more. Near East Hollywood that means 12 reports against a usual 1.
On the freeways, Caltrans still lists full closures of northbound SR-47 from Harbor Boulevard to Ferry Street, and of the southbound 110 carpool lanes from 28th Street to Gage Avenue. Two 101 full closures posted at 12:01 AM in Encino and Boyle Heights joined overnight closures on the 71, 47 and 14.
CHP issued a SigAlert at 9:56 PM after a fatal collision logged at 9:31 PM on the northbound 57 at Brea Canyon Road in Diamond Bar, and it remains active. Earlier in the evening, crashes were logged at 9:16 PM on the westbound 10 at the New Avenue on-ramp and at 9:42 PM on the southbound 110 at Avenue 52 in Highland Park. Collisions were also listed on the northbound 110 at Florence and Manchester.
In the South Bay, an Edison outage affecting 11,607 customers around Manhattan and Hermosa Beach is still on the state outage list. Fire reports have been quiet since a structure fire on East Firestone Boulevard at 10:30 PM, though the NASA satellite fire feed is offline.