San Onofre
An 8-month-old girl was among six people taken to a hospital Monday morning after a four-car, chain-reaction accident south of the San Onofre Border Patrol checkpoint, the California Highway Patrol reported.
No one was seriously injured, but all six were taken to hospitals for examinations, said Jerry Bohrer, spokesman for the CHP’s Oceanside office.
The accident occurred about 11:05 a.m. when Salvador Ortega, 26, of Chula Vista, failed to slow for traffic in the northbound lanes of Interstate 5 at the checkpoint and rear-ended the car ahead of him, Bohrer said. Ortega’s car hit that of Roy Anderson, 79, of Encinitas, who then struck Elvira Matta, 31, of Santa Ana, who in turn hit Molly Hagan, 29, of Los Angeles.
Matta’s 8-month-old daughter, Brenda, was in a child safety seat and was not visibly injured, but was taken to a hospital as a precaution, Bohrer said. Juana Ibarra, Matta’s 65-year-old mother, was also a passenger in the car and taken to a hospital, he said.
Traffic was snarled for about half an hour as three lanes on I-5 north were closed because of the accident, Bohrer said.
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