At 6:45 a.m. this morning on I-790, two people were killed and 20 were injured and taken to the hospital after two tractor-trailers collided causing a chain reaction crash.
A total of four tractor-trailers and 14 cars were involved in the crash. According to Sgt. Albert Wei of the police department, the two tractor-trailers crashed into each other causing other vehicles to swerve, flip, and crash as well, creating a chain reaction crash scene.
Two people driving cars were killed. Among the 20 people injured, four had life threatening injuries. The “Life Flight” helicopter flew two of the worst patients to the trauma center in Statesville, 50 miles away. Fire Chief, Tony Sullivan, said the scene looked like something from a war zone. There was bodies laying along the road, people covered with blood sitting next to their cars, emergency workers running from place to place trying to help the injured people. There were sirens wailing in the distance as more fire trucks and ambulances were called. Sullivan said he had never seen anything that bad in the 18 and a half years he’s been with the fire department.
The accident happened in the northbound lanes, on I-790 closing the entire highway. At 10 a.m. the interstate was still closed and Sgt. Wei had no idea when it would be open again.
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