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The police department is not done investing a bad accident that happened on Interstate 790 this morning at 6:45 a.m. between two tractor trailers when they collided, which started a train reaction. A total of four tractor-trailers and fourteen cars were involved according to Sgt. Albert Wei. One of the trailers was a tanker hauling diesel fuel which Wei said was very lucky it didn’t roll over and dump fuel and catch on fire. The driver was hit but he managed to control it so it didn’t explode. The driver of the truck wasn’t injured, but 2 people were killed and twenty others were injured and taken in to the hospital. Of the twenty four of them were seriously hurt, possibly even life threatening. Tony Sullivan, the fire chief, said that he had to cut the roofs off three of the cars to free the drivers and passengers with the help of firefighters from five nearby towns. Also the “Life Flight” helicopter from Memorial Hospital was also called to the scene to fly two of the most injured to the trauma center 50 miles away in Statesville.

Sullivan said that the scene looked like a war zone with bodies lying along the road, people covered with blood, emergency workers running from one place to another trying to help; and sirens wailing in the distance. He has been working with the fire department for almost 19 years and he said that he hadn’t seen anything like this before. This huge accident cause quite the headache for rush hour traffic since the people who normally take interstate 790 had to take I-690. This ended up backing up traffic for 3 hours on I-690 as well. Wei said that the accident, which occurred in the northbound lanes, closed the entire highway going both directions. At 10 a.m. the interstate was still closed and Wei said that he had no idea when it would reopen.