The California Highway Patrol said flash flooding washed out the eastbound lanes of Interstate 10 outside Desert Center. The westbound lanes remained open Wednesday night but were slow.
Flash flooding from intense storms washed out the eastbound lanes of Interstate 10 near the California-Arizona border Wednesday night .
Authorities received reports of seven overturned tractor-trailers with one person injured, said Sharon Leath, a California Highway Patrol dispatcher. Leath did not know the extent of the person’s injuries. Flood water closed the eastbound freeway at mile marker 121, about 16 miles east of Desert Center, Leath said. Westbound lanes remained open but traffic was moving slowly Wednesday night.Up to 3 inches of rain fell along the 10 east of Desert Center, producing “life threatening flash flooding,” the Weather Service said.A supervisor with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department’s Colorado River Station in Blythe told The Times there were no major flood-related incidents.
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