Accident closes PCH at the Incline May. 10, 2021 at 2:28 pm Sirens filled Santa Monica’s downtown area Monday afternoon after a head-on collision just south of the California Incline shut down traffic in both directions on Pacific Coast Highway. Santa Monica Police and Fire Department officials reported the collision around 1:48 p.m. Monday as traffic began to back up on the popular roadway. Onlookers from above the bluffs looked below and in the sky to try to ascertain what was the cause of the commotion while fire engines squeezed by cars to join the Santa Monica Police Department forensic trucks on-scene.