At 6:45 a.m. this morning along Interstate 790, two tractor trailers collided and started a chain reaction accident. Along with those already involved in the accident two more tractor trailers and fourteen cars were damaged in the crash.
All those involved in the accident two were killed and four people had life threatening injuries. Two of those people were taken by ambulances and the others were taken by Life Flight to Statesville about 50 miles away.
As of right now the city’s Police Department is not sure how the accident occurred and they will let the public know as soon as they are done investigating. So far they believe that the two tractor trailers collided.
So far there are no files against anyone involved in this accident.
Fire chief Tony Sullivan stated “the crash scene looked like a war zone when he arrived.” There were bodies lying all along the road and people covered with blood. One of the toughest for the police and fire department was when the workers had to run from car to car to help those that were hurt. Another bad thing was the emergency workers had a hard time deciding who was driving and who the passengers were and which vehicles belonged to whom. Chief Sullivan also stated “this is the worst accident he has seen in the 18 years.” He has been with the fire department for that long.
The accident happened in the northbound lanes which ended up closing both lanes of the interstate. At time of this publication the interstate was still closed. This caused a major mess for rush hour and all traffic had to be detoured to Interstate 690 on the other side of town which in return backed up traffic on that interstate for three hours.
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