Chula Vista officials plan to build a new median and redirect traffic along a portion of Telegraph Canyon Road that has been a hotspot for crashes.
The new, raised median would prevent drivers from turning westbound from Old Telegraph Canyon Road, according to a city Traffic Safety Commission report. Crews will also construct a U-turn “pocket” and make tweaks to the traffic signal at Telegraph Canyon and Medical Center Drive.
Westbound drivers leaving Old Telegraph — a stretch of road that’s just one-third of a mile and includes medical offices and a cannabis dispensary — must cross three eastbound lanes and speeding motorists to make the left turn.
Residents may know it as an area prone to collisions. Records that inewsourceobtained show roughly a dozen collisions between 2021 and 2024 along several intersections in the area. One crash in November killed a motorcyclist after he hit the median and lost control.
Last month, a driver of a Nissan Sentra turning left from Old Telegraph struck a Ford Mustang heading eastbound on Telegraph Canyon Road. Passengers of the Sentra were transported to a hospital for evaluation, according to the Chula Vista Police Department.
The next day, a crash involving three cars traveling westbound took place near Telegraph and Paseo Ladera, where a Sentra going westbound struck a Mercedes and a Hyundai. No one reported injuries at the time, police said.
Even Chula Vista Mayor John McCann suffered severe injuries after a crash there. In 2013, a driver collided with McCann, then a school board trustee, as McCann attempted to turn left out of Old Telegraph.
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