SAN DIEGO - The morning commute threatened to be unusually long Thursday at the nation's busiest border crossing after all U.S.-bound traffic was halted the previous day because scaffolding had collapsed, falling on more than a dozen cars and injuring 11 travelers and construction workers.
Pedestrian traffic had resumed eight hours later after the accident at the San Ysidro crossing between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, and 13 of 24 vehicle lanes reopened at midnight - well before the morning rush.
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/09/15/20110915california-border-crossing-shutdown-ON.html#ixzz1Y1YHrqGL
Article courtesy of azcentral.com by Elliot Spagat –Associated Press
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