Accident causes full closure on westbound Highway 78, Vista CA
TrafficA traffic accident on westbound Highway 78 near Emerald Drive exit has caused a full closure and backups in both directions. Emergency vehicles including ambulances and fire engines are on scene. The eastbound side is also affected with stopped traffic.
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QST, QST, anybody heading on 78 East or Westbound right now? It looks like Emerald Drive exit is blocked.
00:07
Looks like there's an accident on the westbound side, but the eastbound side is stopped as well.
00:15
That's been your QST from QO Office with DTingo Foxshot.
00:20
Yeah, Bob, I can confirm it's pretty bad out there.
00:23
I just got off, and I'm lucky I got out when I did, man.
00:26
It's pretty badly blocked up.
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Up.
00:30
Thankfully, I'm on the Furnish Road.
00:35
Yeah.
00:36
Stopping at Costco, getting some oil.
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Talk to you guys in a bit.
00:39
K06 EGA cleared.
00:41
There you go, man.
00:42
Good luck on your search.
00:43
KA6W.
00:46
We remember paying 25 cents a quart for 30-weight valveline oil at cheap auto parts or something like that.
00:56
It was checkers.
00:57
I think it was checkers I used to go to back there.
01:08
Yeah, my third place to buy oil is Costco.
01:12
If they have my brand in stock, and that's kind of rare, depends on the Costco.
01:17
But second place, it's Walmart.
01:21
That's where I've been getting mine, Walmart.
01:24
And one of the things I like good there is that they have the Junior Wine Dodge Cummings Oil Filters.
01:33
It's like $12 or something like that for the Dodge Ram oil filters.
01:38
And at the dealers, it's like $30 for the same thing.
01:44
Wow, that's a massive difference.
01:48
No.
01:49
Yeah, the dealers, the Dodge dealers, especially the Dodge dealers, and he'd like take you to the cleaners.
01:57
It's like one time I went in there to get the,
02:01
on the rear axles, they have these nilocks and the keepers.
02:05
It's like...
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a two and three-quarter inch niloch on the axle there.
02:14
And so it's a nilok, and then there's a keeper that you hammer in there that keeps the nilok from backing out.
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And if you take that out, I learned by the mistake that I had to get another axle by using the same niloc and the same keeper, the thing, the keeper pulled it down, and nilock backed out and destroyed the end of the...
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axle there.
02:38
So anyhow,
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I had a friend that worked at,
02:41
and they sold only trucks there, and he got me an axle for like, like $600 or so for a really good, limited slip, one-ton duly axle.
02:53
But anyhow.
02:56
It would be about $120 for the two Nylox and the two keepers at Dodge Dealer.
03:02
Could you imagine the 4-0-0-0-8-Mas?
03:05
Oh, my God. I got the Nylox and the two Nileaks and two keepers for like $35 at the four dealer.
03:22
Ono zones, they have a pretty good price on a filter too.
03:26
It's like $15 an hour zone.
03:30
So Bob, Doug, northbound here on the 15, approaching Escondido there.
03:35
You said there was a problem on the freeway? It's not 78, is it?
03:40
Oh, yeah,
03:41
78's a wreck at Emerald.
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I'll pull over here in just a second, give you a better analysis.
03:49
But yeah, at Emerald, it's a wreck, man.
03:51
You might come in from your direction.
03:53
You might get off at, what's that, Sycamore, maybe?
03:57
I'm just guessing based on where I'm right.
03:59
ambulance.
04:00
Oh,
04:02
so it's a bad one, huh?
04:04
Yeah,
04:05
yeah, it looks like we got the highway shut down, ambulance, fire engines, everything right at Emerald, at westbound, 78.
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