By Caleb Hutton
BELLINGHAM — Freeway traffic was slow-going Friday morning, Dec. 21, after a pair of crashes on both northbound and southbound Interstate 5 near the Sunset Drive overpass.
Here’s the picture that tells the story, courtesy of the state Department of Transportation.
Wow, crashes on I-5 near Sunset are right across from each other. #Bellingham twitter.com/bhamcrime/stat…
— Bellingham Crime (@bhamcrime) December 21, 2012
The northbound three-car crash came first at 11:20 a.m., said Washington State Patrol Trooper Mark Francis. Two people were taken by ambulance to St. Joseph hospital. Traffic was at a crawl for about an hour.
#policescanner: One injured person in crash being transported “with full spinal precautions” to St. Joseph hospital. #Bellingham
— Bellingham Crime (@bhamcrime) December 21, 2012
In the southbound crash, one car rear-ended another, lurching the second car forward into a third, Francis said. Two more people were taken to the hospital. Traffic cleared up a bit faster.
Troopers went to the hospital to continue the investigation. More details weren’t available at the time of this post.
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