CENTRALIA, Wash. (AP) — Three people were taken to a Centralia hospital with injuries after a crash on Interstate 5 that backed up traffic Wednesday morning for about six hour hours.
The Washington State Patrol says it happened about 3:30 a.m. in south Thurston County when a semi-truck hit two cars that had slowed to merge around a construction project.
The crash closed all southbound lanes and one northbound lane. Southbound traffic was detoured.
The Transportation Department reported backups of six miles southbound and seven miles northbound before lanes were reopened about 9:30 a.m.
