5 Freeway

Traffic came to stop late Thursday on the 5 Freeway when dozens of drivers stopped to watch and perform stunts on the road in Norwalk. The freeway takeover happened around 10 p.m. Video shows traffic halted on the freeway during the mayhem. Driver were seen performing tire burnouts and doughnuts on the freeway in southern Los Angeles County. Others set…

Video shows drivers performing burnouts and others lighting firecrackers on the freeway in Norwalk. Video broadcast Friday May 23, 2020 on Today in LA.

Both sides of the 5 Freeway in Santa Fe Springs will be closed overnight through Friday for bridge construction, Caltrans said.  The closure began Sunday, and will continue each night through Friday from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. from Carmenita Road to Artesia Boulevard for construction of the new Valley View Avenue bridge.  The following will be closed each...

A stretch of the 5 Freeway in Burbank will be closed for 36 hours, starting Saturday afternoon, for demolition of a bridge over the freeway. At the time the closure was announced in mid-March, it was described as being something akin to the Carmageddon closure of the 405 Freeway through the Sepulveda Pass in 2011.  Then, the coronavirus pandemic and…

A stretch of the 5 Freeway was closed early Wednesday north of Los Angeles when two big rigs crashed. One person suffered minor injuries in the collision in Castaic, just south of Highway 138. The northbound 5 Freeway was closed in the area. A hazardous materials crew responded to the scene due to a methane phosphate spill. It was not…

Anyone who regularly drives the 5 Freeway through Burbank will want to set a calendar reminder for what will be one of the most significant freeway closures since the dreaded Carmageddon. A 36-hour weekend closure of the road is schedule for April 25-27 as part of a project to demolish and replace the Burbank Boulevard bridge over the freeway, Caltrans…

Set to be completed in summer 2021, the Burbank Bridge Project will have ten motorist lanes, bicycle access and wider sidewalks. Gordon Tokumatsu reports for NBC4 News at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, March 3, 2020.

A black Mazda was spotted plowing through a fence and down into a wash after coming off the 5 Freeway in Mission Hills. Angie Crouch reports for the NBC4 News at 4 p.m. Friday, Jan. 24, 2020.

A scary crash and rescue was caught on camera Friday when a woman exiting the 5 Freeway in Mission Hills plowed through a fence and tumbled down into a wash.  The driver was taken away by ambulance after the frightening wreck occurred across the way from Bohan’s Quick Lube & Auto Repair, located at 14724 San Fernando Mission Blvd. around…

A stretch of the northbound Santa Ana (5) Freeway between the Costa Mesa (55) and Garden Grove (22) freeways will be closed overnight this weekend, according to the Orange County Transportation Authority.

A driver was killed after a short pursuit ended in a fiery crash in Tustin, causing the 5 freeway connector to the 55 freeway to be shut down for hours. CHP and CalTrans are working to get the freeway back open soon.

A driver was killed after a short pursuit ended in a fiery crash, causing the 5 freeway connector to the 55 freeway in Tustin to be shut down. Gene Kang reports for Today in LA.

At least 30 people were injured after at least 25 vehicles were involved in a major pileup Saturday on the 5 Freeway southbound in Gorman.

Prosecutors have cleared two Los Angeles Police Department detectives in the 2016 shooting and capture of a man on the 5 Freeway in Burbank, who was wanted in a six-month crime spree that included a murder, shootings, carjackings, and robberies across Southern California.

Three Los Angeles police officers have been cleared in connection with several controversial and deadly shootings, one of which left a teenage boy dead. Eric Leonard reports for the NBC4 News on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has suspended the operations of a highway enforcement team that stopped thousands of innocent Latino drivers in search of drugs on the 5 Freeway, prompting allegations of racial profiling, it was reported Friday.

The Los Angeles County inspector general has launched an investigation into whether a Sheriff’s Department highway enforcement team engaged in racial profiling when it stopped thousands of innocent Latino drivers in search of drugs on the 5 Freeway, it was reported Monday.

A young mother died in one of three crashes involving at least nine cars on the 5 Freeway Thursday morning, as lanes were closed amid morning traffic and others, including children, were taken to the hospital.