1 Seriously Injured in Highway 1 Box Truck Crash [Nipomo, CA]

Nipomo, CA (May 16, 2025) – A driver was injured in a Highway 1 box truck crash Thursday morning.

It was around 8:50 a.m. when a box truck and a tractor collided head-on near the intersection with Division Street in San Luis Obispo.

Rescuers extracted the injured driver from their vehicle. Officers said the patient sustained major, non-life-threatening injury. 

Troopers said the vehicles blocked the roadway, and they diverted traffic onto Division Street.

4 gallons of hydraulic fluid were spilled into the soil due to the collision.

The authorities are investigating the cause of the collision.

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In another traffic incident, a 60-year-old dump truck driver from Shawnee, Kansas, was injured following a South School Road collision Wednesday morning.