I-5 Off-Ramp to Genesee Ave. — Reported Site of Fatal Off-Ramp Crash
One person has died after a multi-vehicle pileup shut down the Interstate 5 northbound off-ramp to Genesee Avenue in the University City area on Monday morning, according to the California Highway Patrol. A San Diego police officer performed CPR at the scene on a severely injured victim, who was later transported to a hospital and died, CHP Officer Michael Meza said.
The crash was reported shortly before 8 a.m., per Meza, as detailed by the San Diego Union-Tribune. The newspaper’s headline described it as a six-car pileup, while a separate dispatch log tracked by chpfatal.com shows CHP initially logging the crash as a four-vehicle collision at 7:55 a.m. before updating it to five vehicles a minute later. Those entries were preliminary, and the final vehicle count has not been independently reconciled in the available records.
CPR Performed as Off-Ramp Shut Down
The dispatch feed shows that at 8:06 a.m., CHP sent out a notification saying CPR was in progress and requesting that both the Genesee off-ramp and the adjoining on-ramp be closed. Five minutes later, at 8:11 a.m., the feed noted that police had the Interstate 5 North/Genesee off-ramp shut down entirely…