Crime & Safety
1 Killed, Coast Highway Shut Down In OC Crash: Police
A person was killed Wednesday afternoon in a major traffic crash that shut down a stretch of Pacific Coast Highway in Newport Beach.
NEWPORT BEACH, CA — A stretch of Coast Highway was closed to traffic after a fatal crash killed one person in Newport Beach, police said.
The crash happened at around 12:46 p.m. near Pelican Point and Coast Highway, according to the Newport Beach Police Department.
The crash shut down all southbound lanes of East Coast Highway at Pelican Point and all northbound lanes at Newport Coast Drive.
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Motorists were urged to avoid the area.
Details surrounding the crash were not immediately known.
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