GARDINER — A five-vehicle chain-reaction smashup Sunday on U.S. Highway 101 left seven people injured, four of whom were airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
Road ice was believed to have triggered the crashes that included an empty two-tanker fuel truck and closed a section of Highway 101 for more than eight hours Sunday as Washington State Patrol investigators sifted through the wreckage.
The highway’s reopening was delayed until about 6:30 p.m. while investigators made final measurements and the damaged Harris company fuel tanker truck was made road-worthy for towing.
Tyrrell said traffic was detoured around the crash scene via Old Gardiner Highway.
“It was pretty spectacular,” Tyrrell said of the scene.
The crash occurred at about 10:15 a.m. about a mile east of Gardiner Beach Road.
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The rest of the story appears in the Monday Peninsula Daily News.