Traffic backups on I-8 freeway near Highway 163 in San Diego, San Diego CA
TrafficTraffic on the I-8 freeway in San Diego is heavily congested, moving under 5 mph for miles before Highway 163. There is a stalled truck on the left shoulder near the I-8 and I-5 junction, contributing to the slowdown. The incident follows a previous traffic event involving a motorcycle crash on the 210 freeway during peak hours that caused significant delays.
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This is November 6 Charter Yankee Mobile, San Diego.
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Oh,
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hey Rick, how you doing tonight? A.I.S.B.X.
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Stopping traffic.
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Yeah, AI6BX from N6CY.
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Same. I'm on the 8 freeway, stop and go, maybe slow and go, but no greater than 5 miles an hour at a time.
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So it'll be like this for a few miles on the 8 freeway before I get to the Highway 163.
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AI6BX from N6CY.
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Yeah, hopefully things will start rolling here a little bit better.
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I've got about 15 miles an hour,
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which is much improved over last night with that motorcycle incident up here on the 210.
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It was almost three hours, two hours, 50 minutes getting home.
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Yeah, sorry, we saw part of the video clips,
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including the moment of impact, when a car,
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I'm not sure what the car was doing, but maybe he was a good Samaritan who was moving to the left into the H-O-B lane that's a lift-up motorcycles backed into.
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I got some buddies up here in law enforcement that supported something I'd heard, which I figured was speculation, high probability being a rumor,
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but that that was actually an off-duty narcotics officer that had radios on in the car and heard what was going on and helped out.
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106CY. Yeah, from what we could see on the national news, that's kind of what it looked like like it was a deliberate movement by the four-wheeler to take out the two-wheeler with a loaded firearm.
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So there you go.
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Yeah, that definitely made a mess of things up here.
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As I got past the spot, it was, I mean, it was at that point well after dark, but they had that
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freeway well lit up with tons of little evidence markers all over the place.
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And I'm going,
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okay, in my opinion,
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it looked a pretty clear cut from what I had seen while just sitting there doing nothing and pulled up a...
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up a news feed and saw that little maneuver happen.
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What is there really to investigate? But clearly there was, I guess, potential evidence strewn all over the place and I guess you want to have a rock solid case so there's no way that guy is going to get out of anything.
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Yep,
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there you go.
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So I've missed it.
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Was this the eastbound or the westbound 210?
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Eastbound.
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Okay,
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you're going home direction.
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Yeah, eastbound prime rush hour.
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You know, he pulled that stunt right before, you know, we got into peak rush hour traffic, so it was backed up for miles.
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And, you know, an awful lot of traffic dumped down to the 10 eastbound, which made that pretty much a parking lot.
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And, you know, any surface street options were also messed up.
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Yeah, sorry it took so long, but I don't feel sorry for the motorcyclist at all.
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No, I gotta say I don't either.
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And certainly the gun that he was loading while he was cruising down the freeway at 70 plus miles an hour,
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putting a new cartridge in his handgun,
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landed right in their laps after the crash, so they didn't have to go hunting for that.
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Yep, there you go.
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Well,
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I'm glad that things are not as bad today as yesterday, but it's still a little annoying, at least the traffic.
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Anyway,
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warm day here in San Diego.
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I imagine it was the same up your direction.
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I think by the ocean maybe 80, 79 or 80 degrees, and inland along the 15 corridor 90-90-plus here in San Diego.
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Yeah, it did warm up quite a bit here today.
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I got 91 outside still right now.
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That's still pretty toasty.
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I'm only looking at 69 degrees.
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I don't, I can't tell if there's any coastal breeze or anything at that, but we're certainly a lot more comfortable here near the junction of the 8 and the 5 freeways and just going past a stalled little truck in the left hand.
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shoulder.
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