As rain falls, crews respond to multiple crashes on SLO County highways

A car went down a hillside and crashed into a chain-link fence just west of Main Street in Cambria as a light rain fell Sunday afternoon. It was just one of several vehicle incidents on rain-soaked roads in San Luis Obispo County on Sunday.

The single-car rollover crash happened shortly before 3 p.m. A white sedan was traveling on Highway 1 before it crashed across from the Shell gas station, south of Windsor Boulevard. The crash took out a Windsor Boulevard road sign on Highway 1.

There was one woman in the car, but she was able to walk from the car with help to a Cambria Community Healthcare District ambulance. Cal Fire and the Cambria Fire Department also responded to the incident.

As crews responded to the crash, at least eight others occurred within about two hours, including three between 4:15 and 4:26 p.m. on northbound Highway 101 near the Highway 58 exit, according to the CHP. The CHP reported minor injuries in one of those crashes.

There was a two-pickup collision on southbound Highway 101 near Santa Barbara Road in Atascadero about 4:12 p.m., the CHP said.

Earlier, about 3:15 p.m., the CHP said one vehicle spun out and traveled approximately 100 feet down a hillside off northbound Highway 101 just north of San Miguel. Minor injuries were reported.

South of SLO County, northbound Highway 101 near Broadway in Santa Maria was partially blocked for about 40 minutes after a pickup crashed and rolled over, the CHP said.

Rain fell throughout most of Sunday along the Central Coast.

About 4:30 p.m., PG&E meteorologist John Lindsey posted eight-hour rainfall totals on Twitter, including 1.38 inches in Baywood Park; 1.57 inches at Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant; 1.25 inches in Los Osos; 1.27 inches at Prefumo Canyon in SLO; and 1.54 inches at Rocky Butte between Lake Nacimiento and San Simeon.

Lindsay also tweeted that some locations in SLO and Santa Barbara counties could see more than two inches of rain by Sunday night.

This story was originally published November 20, 2016 at 5:46 PM with the headline "As rain falls, crews respond to multiple crashes on SLO County highways."