Rollover causes freeway shutdown A rollover accident...

Rollover causes freeway shutdown

A rollover accident shut down a lane on the Fairview Road offramp

from the San Diego Freeway Monday morning.

A black 2002 Chevrolet Impala going from the Corona del Mar (73)

Freeway north to the San Diego (405) Freeway north just after 6 a.m.

lost control, hit a right-side guardrail and flipped over, California

Highway Patrol Officer Chris Johnson said. It appeared that the

driver was driving too fast for the roadway, he said.

The Impala’s driver, Yvonne Sierra, 19, of Downey, had minor

injuries but declined treatment at the scene.

The CHP declared a SigAlert. One lane of the ramp was closed for

one hour, Johnson said.

Road rage incident under investigation

The California Highway Patrol is investigating an apparent

road-rage incident that happened on the Costa Mesa (55) Freeway

Monday morning.

Drivers of a silver Toyota SUV and a silver Honda Civic appeared

to have angered each other while driving north on the Santa Ana (5)

Freeway just before 7 a.m. Monday, CHP officer Chris Johnson said.

The drivers then got on the Costa Mesa Freeway and headed south,

where witnesses reported seeing them cutting each other off, stopping

in front of each other and exiting the vehicle and shaking fists at

one another, Johnson said.

The incident comes in the wake of a series of freeway shootings,

including two on the Costa Mesa Freeway.

“If one of these guys had had a gun, we would have had a shooting

on our hands,” he said.

One of the cars pulled off the freeway and waited for officers at

the Costa Mesa Police Department. The other driver called the CHP

from another area, Johnson said.

Police are investigating the incident.

“We will get to the bottom of it,” he said. “If charges are worthy

of being filed, they’ll be filed. We’re not tolerating this anymore.”

The CHP announced last week that it was stepping up patrols on the

Costa Mesa, Santa Ana and Garden Grove (22) freeways in the wake of

the recent spate of freeway shootings.