Story 1-Exercise 2-Chapter 9

ROGERS-Commuters on Interstate 790 had to take a three-hour detour today after a fatal crash occured, forcing officials to close off I-790 completely. The Rogers Police Department believe the intial crash started at 6:45 a.m. when two tractor-trailers heading northbound collided. Also involved in the crash were four tractor-trailers, along with fourteen cars that smashed into eachother, resulting in the devastating pile-up. According to Sergeant Albert Wei of the Rogers Police Department, the driver of one of the tractor-trailers was a tanker hauling diesel fuel. Today the driver of the tanker is thought to be very lucky considering the tanker didn't roll over, dump fuel, or catch fire.

As a result of the pile-up two people are left people dead, along with 16 others that were injured, and leaving four of the victims in serious condition. The Fire Chief, Tony Sullivan described the scene as if it looked similar to a war zone. Bodies were seen lying along the road and people were sitting next to their cars covered in blood. Sullivan stated that he had "never seen anything that bad in the 18-in-a-half years that hes been on the fire department." Sullivan stated that, “Firefighters had to cut the roofs off three of the cars to be able to free the drivers and passengers that were trapped inside.” All five of Rogers citiy's ambulances were on the scene, along with ambulances from four nearby fire departments as well as the "Life Flight" helicopter transporting two of the worst injuries to the trauma center. The exact cause of the crash has not yet been identified and will be under further investigation by the Rogers Police Department.