The Nation - News from Aug. 5, 1988
Oregon Gov. Neil E. Goldschmidt ordered a top-level investigation into a smoke-caused crash that turned a stretch of Interstate 5 into a deadly inferno. Seven people were killed, including a California resident, and 38 were injured when 23 vehicles crashed as thick smoke drifted across the freeway four miles south of Albany Wednesday afternoon. The smoke came from a planned grass-seed field burn that spread out of control into a field adjacent to the freeway.
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