One person was killed on November 6, 2024, when a vehicle fell off an elevated section of State Route 94 in South Park.
The vehicle was headed west at high speed shortly before 10:30 a.m. Wednesday when it struck an overpass wall at SR-15 and plunged off the roadway, according to the California Highway Patrol. The car landed on SR-94 eastbound, on the Home Avenue on-ramp.
The driver, who died at the scene, was ejected from the car, which landed in a patch of ice plant and caught fire, the CHP reported. CHP says the car dropped about 25 feet.
South Park, one of the most pedestrian-friendly parts of San Diego, is home to restaurants, cafes, grocery stores, taverns and wine bars, art galleries, the Albert Einstein Academy Charter School, and other local businesses. It is also home to Pathfinders, one of the oldest residential treatment centers for alcoholism in California.
First registered as a subdivision in 1870, the South Park Addition was too far from downtown San Diego to attract development until its purchase in 1905 by E. Bartlett Webster. After his company installed sidewalks, water, sewer, electricity, and other amenities, positioning the neighborhood as a “high-class residential district,” sales took off.
Further development was spurred by the 1906 opening of the South Park and East Side Railway, an electric streetcar line linking South Park with downtown San Diego and making South Park the city’s first streetcar suburb.
Shortly thereafter, this local system joined the extensive San Diego public transit system that was inspired by the Panama–California Exposition of 1915 and built by John D. Spreckels. These streetcars remained a fixture of this neighborhood until their retirement in 1949.
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