STATE : Spectacular Accidents Close Icy Stretch of Interstate 5; Nine Hurt
A gasoline tanker exploded into a fireball seen 20 miles away today in one of two spectacular pre-dawn accidents that closed an icy stretch of Interstate 5 for hours today. Nine people were reported injured.
The trucker and a Shasta County sheriff’s deputy were slightly injured in the tanker mishap, the Highway Patrol reported. At least seven people were hurt in the second accident, in which a tractor-trailer rig skidded on ice, crossed the center divider and flipped on top of an oncoming passenger van. The accidents, both blamed on bad weather, closed about 20 miles of the major north-south artery for three hours.
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