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In a newly released report from the California Highway Patrol (CHP), new details have been revealed about the live-fire mishap involving a patrol vehicle near Camp Pendleton during Vice President JD Vance’s visit to the Marine Corps’ 250th anniversary celebration.

The report outlines that the incident happened at 1:46 p.m. when a 155 mm artillery round fired from White’s Beach — roughly three-quarters of a mile south of Las Pulgas Road — “detonated midair over Interstate 5.”

CHP had closed a stretch of the freeway to support the event when debris began falling from above.

“The detonation produced small pieces of metal debris that fell onto the closed freeway,” the report stated. “One piece of shrapnel struck the hood of a CHP patrol vehicle,

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