DEVORE, California — One person was killed and another was hospitalised with serious injuries on Sunday night, November 8, when a sedan crashed into the side of a semi tractor-trailer on Cajon Boulevard near Glen Helen Parkway in Devore, in San Bernardino County, the California Highway Patrol said. The crash, reported at about 6:12 p.m., closed Cajon Boulevard for about four hours while firefighters worked to free a trapped occupant and investigators documented the scene.

Source: Pain In The Pass — CHP and San Bernardino County Fire reporting, Nov 9, 2026

According to the CHP traffic log, the brown sedan crashed into the side of the semi. A second report of the same crash, published by the Pacific Attorney Group from the CHP incident logs, placed it at about 6:11 p.m. in the area of Cajon Boulevard and Rex Cole Road — the same stretch of the old highway through Devore, a short distance along the boulevard. Authorities did not immediately determine the events leading up to the collision, and no cause has been announced.

Source: Pacific Attorney Group — CHP incident logs, Nov 9, 2026

San Bernardino County Fire crews found two people in the sedan, one of them trapped inside the wreckage, and both needing transport with serious injuries. Firefighters called for a medical helicopter to land at the scene. Both occupants of the sedan were taken to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center. One of them succumbed to their injuries and was pronounced deceased at the hospital. The second person remained hospitalised; their condition has not been updated in the reports available on Monday night.

The person who died has not yet been identified — their age and gender were not yet known, the CHP-based reporting said, and no name has been released. The driver of the semi tractor-trailer was not hurt. No other vehicles were reported involved, and no arrests or citations were reported in connection with the crash as of Monday night.

Where it happened: Cajon Boulevard and the Cajon Pass

Cajon Boulevard is the old highway through the Cajon Pass — the historic Route 66 alignment that winds between the San Gabriel and San Bernardino mountains, running roughly parallel to Interstate 15. Devore is the small community at the foot of the pass where the boulevard, Glen Helen Parkway and the I-15 corridor meet, near Glen Helen Regional Park. The pass is one of Southern California's most important freight corridors: I-15 over Cajon Pass carries the truck traffic between the Inland Empire's warehouse belt, the High Desert and Las Vegas, and Cajon Boulevard serves as the frontage and relief route local drivers use when the interstate backs up — which means local cars and heavy trucks routinely share this older, narrower road, especially on Sunday evenings when weekend traffic pours back down the pass.

That mix is exactly why a sedan-versus-semi collision on this boulevard draws a full response. A large share of this site's readers in the United States are Punjabi truck drivers, and the I-15 Cajon Pass corridor is a run many of them know by heart — the long climb out of San Bernardino, the brake-check areas and the steep descent where runaway-truck ramps are cut into the hillside. Sunday night's crash was on the surface road, not the interstate, but it shut the boulevard that drivers fall back on when the pass itself is congested.

The investigation belongs to the California Highway Patrol's Inland office. Pain In The Pass, the local traffic outlet that follows the Cajon Pass closely, said it would update its report when the CHP's preliminary accident report becomes available, and the Pacific Attorney Group's account likewise noted that the investigation is ongoing. A preliminary report is the document in which troopers normally set out the sequence of the collision, the direction of travel of each vehicle and any contributing factors they can establish.

What happens next: the CHP Inland office will complete its preliminary investigation; the identity of the person who died will be released once it is confirmed; and the condition of the hospitalised survivor may be updated by officials or the hospital. Drivers crossing the Cajon Pass this week should expect the usual advice troopers give after a fatal crash on the corridor — slow down on the descent, watch for local traffic entering from the boulevard's side roads, and check conditions before choosing between I-15 and the surface route through Devore.