The CHP highlighted that the crash happened under limited visibility conditions, with drivers likely traveling at unsafe speeds with low visibility. All lanes were blocked due to the pile-up, leading

Originally, onramp traffic meters were active during set periods of time on weekdays, normally peak traffic hours in the morning and evening for that stretch of highway. But the meters now can be activated at any time of day, including weekends and holidays, as traffic conditions warrant.

It took unprecedented engineering might and precarious debris removal to once again connect northern Big Sur with its southern neighbors.

Whatever will the driver do as the road before him vanishes in a gray wall? Then, along the Highway 58, a short way south of Bakersfield, in California, that query ceased to be hypothetical, as a heavy tule fog established the conditions leading to a huge chain-reaction traffic jam.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A crash involving about 43 vehicles along eastbound Highway 58 Tuesday morning prompted a closure of the highway, according to the California Highway Patrol. The incident was first reported at around 8:07 a.