[Homestead] California

EarthNSky erthnsky at bellsouth.net
Sat Nov 3 21:11:40 EST 2007


LOL, Gene, I can't help myself...I have to top that story with one a few 
years old that happened a few miles from here...GA has it all, too. ;)
http://ngeorgia.com/feature/I75_wreck.html

125 vehicles
4 dead
fog to blame...

B


Gene GeRue wrote:
> Bev, like I said, California has it all, good and bad:
> 
> Massive pileup in Calif. kills 2, closes highway
> Up to 100 vehicles involved in chain reaction of accidents in fog  
> near Fresno
> 
> updated 1:56 p.m. CT, Sat., Nov. 3, 2007
> 
> FRESNO, Calif. - At least two people were killed in a massive multi- 
> vehicle pileup on a foggy freeway just south of the city Saturday  
> morning, the California Highway Patrol said.
> 
> Up to 100 vehicles, including nine big rigs, were involved in the  
> collision on Northbound Highway 99 as patches of dense fog obscured  
> visibility on the heavily traveled roadway, CHP Officer Scott  
> Jobinger said.
> 
> “It looks like we had a chain reaction crash in that fog,”  
> Jobinger said.
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> 
> Rescuers had to extract several people trapped in the wreckage, and  
> paramedics transported more than three dozen patients to the hospital  
> with injuries, Fresno City Fire Department spokesman Ken Shockley said.
> 
> Three hours after the 7:45 a.m. crash, the freeway was “literally a  
> parking lot” as traffic backed up for several miles on Northbound  
> Highway 99 south of Fresno, Shockley said.
> 
> Wrecked vehicles were scattered for at least two miles along the  
> freeway as crews worked to clear the wreckage, he said.
> 
> Authorities said no hazardous materials were spilled.
> 
> The freeway’s northbound lanes around Clovis Avenue were shut down  
> indefinitely as investigators worked to determine the cause of the  
> crash, Jobinger said. The southbound lanes remained opened.
> 
> In the late morning, tractor trailers carrying building materials,  
> live chickens and other cargo were still sitting jacknifed on the  
> stretch of freeway where the accident occurred. 
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