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In the early hours of traffic yesterday morning, a terrible accident involving 18 vehicles, four being tractor trailers, took place on Interstate 790.

According to Sergeant Albert Wei of the police department, “The crash scene looked like something like a war zone when he arrived, with bodies lying along the road, people covered with blood sitting next to their cars, emergency workers running from place to place trying to help the injured.”Officers on the scene had troubles figuring out which cars belonged to whom, and who were the divers and who were the passengers. For two of the car drivers, the accident was fatal.  20 of the other car drivers made it out with severe injuries, four of which being life threatening.

Although the investigation is still taking place, the city’s police department thinks a chain reaction crash caused by two of the tractor trailers occurred.

Fire Chief Tony Sullivan said, “Firefighters had to cut the roofs off three of the cars to free the drivers and passengers that were trapped inside.”  All five of the city’s fire departments were called on scene as well as ambulances from four of the surrounding cities. Also, the “Life Flight” helicopter form Memorial hospital was called in to carry away those with the worst injuries directly to the hospital’s trauma center.

According to Sullivan, he had never seen anything as bad as the accident in the 18 and a half years he’s been with the city’s fire department,

The accident, which happened in the northbound lane, closed the entire highway, going both north and south. The detour took place on Interstate 690, which had backed up traffic for three hours. There is still no word on when the highway will be unblocked.