101 Freeway SigAlert: Fallen Tree Topples Onto Truck

LOS ANGELES, CA — Amid torrential rain and intense wind gusts, a tree toppled onto a vehicle at the Canoga Avenue onramp to the Ventura (101) Freeway in Woodland Hills Tuesday morning, prompting the California Highway Patrol to issue a SigAlert for the freeway.

The SigAlert was issued for the southbound 101 lanes shortly before 9 a.m. Tuesday because the toppled tree blocked the onramp and the right side of the freeway, according to the CHP.

Authorities did not have an estimate for when the tree would be removed.

The damage occurred shortly before 8 a.m. when a large tree fell atop a pickup truck, the CHP reported.

The incident was one of dozens snarling Southern California roadways including a high number of spinouts, roadway flooding and crashes.