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Semi driver Jack G. Kennedy, 71, fails to stop for slowed traffic and sets off four-vehicle pileup on I-5 in Centralia, Washington

Date: 
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Area: 
Seattle-Tacoma, WA

Jack G. Kennedy, 71, of Abbotsford, British Columbia, failed to stop his semi-trailer truck in time for three vehicles that were stopped for traffic on northbound I-5. He struck a white 2002 Volvo station wagon in the rear, which then hit a 2003 Honda Civic parked in front of it, and that car went on to rear-end a 2009 Toyota Corolla.

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An empty milk tractor-tanker and a vehicle crash on northbound I-5 in the Castaic area of Los Angeles. No injuries reported.

Date: 
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Area: 
Los Angeles, CA

A crash between an empty milk tanker truck and a vehicle shut down multiple northbound lanes on the 5 Freeway in the Castaic area early Wednesday morning.

The collision occurred shortly before 5 a.m. north of Lake Hughes Road. The crash resulted in an oil spill.

All northbound lanes were initially shut down, but California Highway Patrol officials reopened one lane at about 5:30 a.m. The other lanes remained closed as crews worked to clean the roadway. At one point, northbound traffic was backed up to Hasley Canyon Road.

All lanes have since reopened.

Women arrested for DUI after crashing her car into a California Highway Patrol cruiser while traveling the wrong way on I-5 near San Diego, California

Date: 
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Area: 
San Diego, CA
A woman suspected of drunken driving was arrested early Monday after authorities said she drove the wrong way on two highways and collided with a California Highway Patrol car. Authorities were notified about 1:35 a.m. that a driver in a Mitsubishi Mirage was heading west in the eastbound lanes of state Route 52. The driver then exited onto Interstate 5 and headed south in the northbound lanes where she sideswiped the patrol car, the CHP said. The driver was stopped and taken into custody and booked into jail on DUI charges, the CHP said. No injuries were reported.

William M. Steinbrook, 54, Adam W. Pennington, 43, killed, William Dean Penicks, 56, seriously injured, transported to hospital, after a tractor-trailer collides with another disabled tractor-trailer on the shoulder of northbound I-5 near Canyonville.

Date: 
Sunday, March 2, 2014
Area: 
Eugene, OR

Oregon State Police released the names of two men killed in a multi-vehicle crash in Douglas County on Sunday.

The accident happened about 11 p.m. along the northbound shoulder of Interstate 5 about eight miles south of Canyonville, killing a roadside assistance mechanic and a passenger in a commercial truck.

Lt. Gregg Hastings, an OSP spokesman, said a disabled commercial truck pulling a semi-trailer was parked on the right northbound shoulder of I-5.

Zeus Perez, 41, struck and killed by a tractor-trailer driven by Phillip Reich, 47, in the center lane of northbound I-5 near Woodland.

Date: 
Sunday, March 2, 2014
Area: 
Portland, OR
Northbound lanes of Interstate 5 in Woodland reopened after a fatal crash early this morning involving a tractor-trailer and a pedestrian. The crash was reported at 2:09 a.m. when Phillip Reich, the 47-year-old Covington man driving the big rig called to report that he had hit someone. The tractor-trailer driver told investigators that he was driving in the right lane, saw reflection of taillights on the right shoulder and moved to the center lane and struck something.

6-year-old boy killed, 10-year-old boy, Ericka M. Gorremans, 32, Gage W. Musgrave, 84, seriously injured, taken to hospital, after a 3-car wrong-way crash on northbound I-5 near Vancouver in Clark County.

Date: 
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Area: 
Portland, OR

6-year-old boy died and three other people were hospitalized Friday following a wrong-way car crash on Interstate 5 just north of Vancouver. The accident happened just before 2 p.m. when an 84-year-old Vancouver man driving south in the northbound portion of I-5 crashed head-on into a car driven by a La Center woman who had two children in her vehicle. Gage W. Musgrave was driving a white 2005 Toyota Avalon, according to the Washington State Patrol accident report, when he collided with a 2008 

Christopher W. Adams, 25, suffers minor injuries, cited for speeding, when his car leaves I-5 roadway at high speed and crashes in the median near Vancouver.

Date: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Area: 
Portland, OR

A man was injured in a single-vehicle crash on northbound Interstate 5 near Northeast 179th Street early this morning.

Christopher W. Adams, 25, of Dallas, Ore., was driving a 2001 Audi north on the highway when Washington State Patrol troopers say he was going too fast and lost control. The vehicle went into the median and struck a cable barrier before stopping in a dirt embankment, according to state patrol.

The crash occurred about 2:20 a.m.