If you were stuck in it, you won’t soon forget with thousands of drivers stuck in traffic backed up for miles on Interstate 5 after a small plane causes a huge problem.
The pilot of a single engine Piper making an emergency landing onto freeway isn’t what usually causes big traffic backups, but it was on Tuesday. The plane striking several vehicles before coming to rest on one of the busiest freeways in San Diego and miraculously, no one was seriously injured.
As a CHP officer told the San Diego Union Tribune, “Anytime a plane lands on the freeway, it’s going to be pretty catastrophic, but luckily it’s minor injuries” As rare as it is, it does sometimes happen. A pilot is in trouble, has to make an emergency landing, and can’t find an open field, so they put it down on a freeway.
But with it being Interstate 5 there are always a lot of vehicles travelling along, especially in the Del Mar area. So the fact that no one was badly hurt was indeed lucky. Especially for those drivers whose vehicles were in the wrong place at the wrong time and had the plane hit their cars.
But for all the thousands stuck on the freeway for all those hours, it was not a real lucky day, with people late to work, meetings and medical appointments.
It is a reminder though that while rare things do happen at times and that they are usually more of close calls, it is a good time to be grateful for each and every day.
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