Two Injured in North County Freeway Crash

OCEANSIDE - Two people were injured today, one seriously, when a sport-utility vehicle careened off Interstate 5 and tumbled into a culvert in the far northwestern reaches of San Diego County.

The accident on the northbound side of the freeway near Harbor Drive occurred shortly before 2 p.m., when Adam Sipcyak, 37, swerved abruptly to his left to avoid a collision with a silver sedan whose driver tried to change lanes in his direction while traveling alongside Sipcyak's 1998 Ford Explorer, according to the California Highway Patrol.

The SUV veered out of the left-hand lane of the interstate, w...