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Highway 1 Reopens Ahead of Schedule, Making Way for Big Sur Travel Ahead of Summer

Highway 1 has reopened to regular traffic, thanks to a new signal system that will allow traffic to flow in one direction at a time past the area where a rockslide made part of the roadway disappear in late March.

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One Dead After Car Goes Off Cliff Along Highway 1 in Coastal San Mateo County

Traffic was disrupted in both directions of Highway 1 north of Half Moon Bay Thursday afternoon, as a car went over a cliff shortly before 1 pm, and the driver of that car has been pronounced dead.

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No Ins and Outs at Big Sur as More Rain Threatens to Cause More Road Damage

Residents of Big Sur are being told that their last chance to evacuate the area for the next several days is at 4 pm Wednesday, after which there will be no more convoys of vehicles allowed to pass across a partially collapsed section of Highway 1.

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Road Collapse On Highway 1 Strands Around 1,600 People In Big Sur Over Holiday Weekend

Anyone who took a daytrip to Big Sur on Saturday, or those who were perhaps spending a weekend there, were surprised to learn they were stranded Saturday evening.

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Tuesday Morning Topline: Highway 1 In Big Sur Closed Once Again By Rockslide

An SF Public Works truck struck a fire hydrant and caused some flooding in UN Plaza; a couple of rockslides have shut down a section of Highway 1 in Big Sur; and beware of online dating app scams around Valentine's Day.

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One Dead, Two Injured In New Year's Day Rollover Crash on Highway 1 In SF

A crash Monday night at the southwestern edge of San Francisco, near the Oceanview neighborhood on Junipero Serra Boulevard/Highway 1, left one person dead and two others with serious injuries.

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Big Sur Likely to Be Inaccessible From Highway 1 From the South Through the Summer as Cleanup Work Continues

The southern route into Big Sur on Highway 1 is going to be closed for the next several months, Caltrans says, in an update on the progress of work to clear debris from a major landslide that occurred this past winter.

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Two Drivers Dead After Head-On Collision On Highway 1; Both Cars Land In Lagoon

Two men are dead and a passenger was seriously injured after a crash on Highway 1 in San Mateo County Tuesday evening which sent both cars careening off a cliff into a lagoon.

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Another Major Rockslide Closes Highway 1 South of Big Sur For Several Weeks, Maybe Longer

You will not be able to drive Highway 1 between Big Sur and San Simeon for quite some time, and with good reason, because this rockslide has rendered that road pretty much unnavigable.

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Highway 1 In Big Sur Once Again Closes Due to Rockslide Following Weekend Rain

A frequently closed section of Highway 1 is once again closed to traffic due to debris slides caused by this past weekend's stormy weather.

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Car Flies Off Cliff Near Devil's Slide On Highway 1

Another car has gone off a cliff along Highway 1 south of San Francisco, and the male driver of the car was apparently alive and transported to an area hospital.

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Car Goes Off Cliff Near Devil's Slide On Highway 1, Driver Survives

Possibly due to slick road conditions during this morning's rain, a driver on Highway 1 south of San Francisco appears to have skidded off a steep cliff, but he was able to get out of the car and be rescued.

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This Drone Footage Shows Just How Bad the Washout South of Big Sur Really Is

The massive atmospheric river downpour that drenched California — especially here in NorCal — caused a stretch of Highway 1 in Big Sur to dive right into the ocean; this Caltrans’ drone footage shows just how much actually dove off the cliffside.

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Updated: Woman Dies After Car Flies Off Cliff On Highway 1 Near Gray Whale Cove

Cal Fire rescue teams who are continuing the battle the CZU Lightning Complex fires in San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties had to turn their attention to a vehicle crash Monday morning.

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Woman Identified As Driver Who Was Seen On Video Driving Off a Cliff on Highway 1

You may recall the dash-cam video that sparked a mystery back on December 30, when a Lexus SUV was seen flying off a cliff at Gray Whale Cove near Pacifica, on Highway 1. Well, all these months later, there are finally some human remains and a positive ID.

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Video: Dash Cam Footage Shows Car Speeding Off Cliff on Highway 1

Rescue crews have been battling intense surf since Monday after a witness reported seeing a vehicle go speeding off a cliff south of Devil's Slide, on Highway 1 at Gray Whale Cove. Now the witness has provided dash-cam video to authorities and local media showing the moment in question.

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Massive Landslide In Big Sur Won't Get New Road For At Least A Year

#BigSurLandslide fly around May 27, preliminary computer animation. Roughly 13 acres of new #California land! pic.twitter.com/PoKZL5WZBI— USGS Coastal Change (@USGSCoastChange) June 1, 2017 The Mud Creek Slide in the southern

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No One Knows How To Clean Up Big Sur Landslide, Or How Much It's Going To Cost

Landslide leaves engineers to ponder options for Highway 1 in #BigSur. via @kurtisalexanderhttps://t.co/H3Vkbpu8sv pic.twitter.com/5MM76W4DyJ— SFChronicle (@sfchronicle) May 26, 2017 No doubt, eventually, it will get cleaned up

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Big Sur Landslide Being Called The Biggest In State History

Massive landslide brings new level of isolation to Big Sur https://t.co/mwFBhy5Hvd pic.twitter.com/H2MsAmiByU— SFGate (@SFGate) May 23, 2017 Last weekend's massive landslide at Mud Creek along Highway 1

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Video: Massive Mudslide Cuts Off Yet Another Part Of Hwy 1 Near Big Sur

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Wrecking Ball Fails To Wreck Crumbling Big Sur Bridge

Another great shot from Stan Russell of Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge on #Hwy1 pic.twitter.com/28fVK0u4AM— Caltrans District 5 (@CaltransD5) March 9, 2017 We're gonna need a bigger wrecking ball. The condemned Pfeiffer

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Bridge In Big Sur Gets Wrecking Ball Treatment, Highway 1 To Remain Interrupted For Rest Of Year

The wrecking ball continues to drop on the Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge in Big Sur. pic.twitter.com/hYNWSvd6sF— Tommy Wright (@WrightScribe) March 13, 2017 Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge in Big Sur, which buckled and

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Photos Show Condemned Bridge That Promises To Shut Off Big Sur Tourism Yet Again, For Months

Bridge on Highway 1 south of Monterey has pretty much given up ... canyon slid & ground shifted https://t.co/hmwakkBfCx— Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) February 23, 2017 Big Sur was hit hard last

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Landslides Cut Off Big Sur Tourism, Shut Down Highway 1 For Three Weeks

Significant mud- and landslides, including huge boulders and piles of rock, have cut off the community of Big Sur from the world for the second time in six months as a section of

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Uber Passenger Killed In Wrong-Way Collision On Highway 1

Two people were killed in a car crash on Highway 1 in Pacifica early Friday morning, one of whom was an Uber passenger. KRON 4 reports an Uber driver was heading northbound on