Traffic delays on 8, 163, and 15 due to accident and slowdowns, San Diego CA
TrafficTraffic is heavily congested on the 8 Freeway, 163 southbound, and at the merge between 163 and 15 northbound in San Diego. An accident on the 15 southbound express lanes near Mercy Road is causing lane closures. The congestion is worsened by drivers slowing to look at the crash. Emergency vehicles have left the scene but tow trucks remain. Drivers are warned of slow traffic and bumper-to-bumper conditions at the freeway merge.
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Is the 8 ever a joy?
00:01
No,
00:02
not really. And the 163 southbound looks like it was all jammed up, possibly, I don't know, is there a Padres game tonight downtown?
00:09
That I'm not aware of.
00:10
I know there was an accident on the 15 southbound express lanes up by Mercy Road.
00:16
They have not come across that yet.
00:18
Hopefully it's cleared by the time you get there.
00:19
I went past there at about 340, I think it was, and they still had the lanes blocked off with a big tow truck and whatnot.
00:28
Well, southbound should not be too much of a factor, but there's still plenty of traffic naturally and, of course, the rubberneckers and things like that.
00:38
But southbound shouldn't stop things up northbound much.
00:42
It did. The rubberneckers did.
00:44
Yeah. Yeah, when Tom and Brian were going through there, Brian, let me know ahead of time, but I saw it on the GPS coming up.
00:51
Okay, and were you northbound H-OB lanes?
00:54
Yeah, and then when I got up to it, they had a couple highway trolls and a tow truck, the ambulance or whatever, it already left.
01:04
I'll definitely keep an eye open for it.
01:06
I hope your day was well, otherwise.
01:08
Yeah, it was fun.
01:09
I was working with the 25-year-old.
01:11
He had questions, I had answers, and he learned some stuff.
01:14
So we're trying to get him up to speak because he's the future, man.
01:17
They're the win-win situation.
01:19
Yeah, he's a good kid.
01:21
He's a little misguided, but you know, that's all right.
01:23
I remember when I was that age in this business, I had a lot of questions and no one to help, so I just had to figure it out myself.
01:29
Yep, and somehow you turned out okay.
01:35
More than okay.
01:36
Yeah, it was just a big crash course in trying to figure things out, that's all.
01:40
You know, I mean, I already knew basic DC theory and this and that, but you just got to learn the stuff you're working on and how things go.
01:50
Unfortunately, he doesn't have any electronics background, so he just knows what he's learned on the job.
01:55
Okay, well, I reached the mega slowdown at the merge between the 163 and the 15 northbound, so here we are, bumper to bumper.
02:06
Break lights and bumpers, yeah.
02:08
Hopefully your day went well.
02:09
Just the fact that I'm rolling and it's only 1630 is a good thing.
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Location mentioned:
Merge Dr, San Diego, CA 92129
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