EL CAJON, CA : Injured toddler wrong-way crash victim removed from medically induced coma on Monday, 26th February 2024

Nearly a month after a horrific wrong-way crash along I-8, a one-year-old toddler is out of a coma and beginning a long road to recovery.

Cellphone video shows Kayte Blocker's son, Akeel, reaching for her hand in a room at Rady Children’s Hospital.

For Blocker, moments like this now mean everything.

“He's excelling, giving me hope,” said Blocker.

In late January, little Akeel was sleeping in his car seat in the back of an SUV. His father Anthony Robinson, driving his three kids, pulled up to a stoplight on N. 2nd St. in El Cajon.

According to the CHP, a truck headed the wrong way on I-8, crashed into a guardrail and a concrete wall, showering debris onto the vehicles below.

The truck careened over the overpass, bursting into flames, killing the driver.

One of the pieces of debris shattered a window of the SUV, struck Akeel in the head, causing two fractures. He was placed in a medically induced coma.

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