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El Toro Y

Interstate 5Irvine, CaliforniaLaguna Hills, CaliforniaRoad interchanges in CaliforniaRoads in Orange County, California
Southern California freewaysVague or ambiguous time from September 2019
El Toro Y Photo D Ramey Logan
El Toro Y Photo D Ramey Logan

The El Toro "Y" is a freeway interchange in southern Orange County, California where the Santa Ana Freeway, Interstate 5 (I-5), and the San Diego Freeway (at that point the I-405) merge. South of the El Toro Y, the highway is named the "San Diego Freeway" with the highway designation "I-5." Located in south Orange County where the cities of Lake Forest, Laguna Hills, and Irvine converge, the interchange was named after the nearby city (El Toro - now Lake Forest) and the now-closed Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, located northeast of the interchange. The "Y" is one of the busiest interchanges in the world; from 1975 to 2002, daily traffic surged from 102,000 to 356,000 vehicles a day.The "Y" was where American broadcast reporter Zoey Tur of KCBS-TV, via news helicopter, first located and broadcast O.J. Simpson's white Ford Bronco slow-speed police chase exclusively for 22 minutes on June 17, 1994.

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El Toro Y
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N 33.6446 ° E -117.7353 °
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92619 Irvine, Irvine Spectrum
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