Escondido

Spilled hydraulic fluid on Del Dios Highway Tuesday led to six accidents near Toyon Canyon Road, the California Highway Patrol said. Three women were injured and the accidents stalled westbound traffic for about two hours. According to CHP Officer B.J. Country, about 8:30 a.m. a cement mixer’s broken hydraulic line leaked fluid onto the highway. Soon after, a car driven by Irene Solomon, 59, of Escondido, hit the fluid, slid into an embankment and rolled over. Solomon, trapped inside, had to be cut out by paramedics. She was treated at Palomar Hosp1769234796from that accident, a car driven by Bonnie Lynn King, 31, of Escondido hit the liquid and ran off the highway. King was not injured. Next, a Goodhew ambulance driven by Cynthia Ann Dorst, 20, of San Diego approached and was hit by a car driven by Kenneth Smith of Escondido. No one was injured in that smashup. Starr Ann Sanders, 25, of Vista, and Desiree Johansen, 28, of Escondido, also lost control of their cars and ran off the road when they hit the fluid. Both were treated and released at Palomar Hospital. The driver of the cement mixer, Robin Louis Briggs, 28, of Fallbrook, was unaware of the spill until CHP officers found him two hours later, Country said. He was not charged but he will be responsible for repairing the damaged cars, the officer said.