Traffic & Transit

Hit-And-Run At Border Checkpoint Closes I-15

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent was involved in a hit-and-run crash at a U.S. Border Patrol station in Temecula.

TEMECULA, CA — A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent was involved in a hit-and-run crash Monday morning at a border patrol station in Temecula, but it was not immediately disclosed if the agent was injured.

Early Monday morning, the agent was struck by an unidentified vehicle at a border checkpoint near Rainbow Valley Boulevard on Interstate 15, according to NBC 7. Caltrans closed the northbound lanes of the Temecula Valley Freeway due to the incident around 4:15 a.m.

No other information was available.

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— City News Service