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Date: 
Friday, April 17, 2015

At about 3:30am, a semi-truck changing from northbound I-405 to northbound I-5 rolled onto its side, resulting in its cargo, millions of bees in boxes each containing about 5000, being spilled across the freeway. Thousands of bees escaped, and while beekeepers are using smoke to calm the bees and attempt to reload them, firefighters had to resort to using foam to kill many of them. The driver of the bee truck was not injured in the crash, and cleanup of the scene should be complete by about 10:00am.

Date: 
Monday, December 29, 2014

Mark W. Backstrom, 54, was driving a pickup on I-5 on the Lewis River Bridge when he changed lanes to avoid an illegally stopped car, lost control of the vehicle, and struck the rail of the bridge. Next, a semi-truck without a trailer struck Backstrom's vehicle, and three vehicles that were behind it, including an armored truck and two SUV's slowed to avoid the wreck. Finally, a semi-truck carrying two trailers full of chickens driven by Robert L.