EL CAJON, Calif. (KGTV) – Parents of a 17-month-old boy are keeping are vigil, after he was critically injured during a wrong-way crash that sent concrete debris into vehicles.
Just after 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Anthony Robinson was driving his SUV, his 10-year-old son in the front. In the back were his teen daughter and his 17-month-old son, Akeel, sleeping in a car seat.
They pulled up to a stoplight on second street, preparing to turn onto I-8 West.
“We were about three cars back, just waiting for the light,” said Robinson.
That’s when it happened.
“We heard a long banging noise. It was really loud. It sounded almost like a bomb went off. Then another loud bang. After the first bang, the windshield caved in, and it got smoky,” said Robinson.
According to the CHP, a Chevy Silverado was going east on westbound I-8, before the driver lost control, crashing into a concrete guardrail, a median, and then into a concrete wall, showering debris onto the vehicles below.
The Silverado careened over the overpass, ending up nearly upright against a wall, before bursting into flames, feet from Robinson’s SUV.