Photos: Andrew Goff.

UPDATE: The Outpost’s Andrew Goff spoke with Humboldt County Sheriff’s Deputy Kevin Kastler, who was helping provide traffic control at the scene while waiting for a Eureka Police traffic officer to arrive.

Kastler said that he and another deputy were driving past the scene when the accident occurred. The white Kia was traveling southbound on Broadway in the left-hand land, he said, when the pickup truck pictured below attempted to turn left from Vigo onto northbound Broadway. The truck didn’t see the car, Kastler said.

Meanwhile, near the scene, the deputies spotted a man whom they knew to be wanted by the police — a man with active arrest warrants. They searched him and took him into custody, placing him into the front seat of the truck they were driving when the accident occurred. The deputy squeezed in behind the suspect, in the jump seat.

Traffic is still backed up all the way to Washington.

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Meanwhile … if you’re still avoiding Buhne, as you probably should be, you should really avoid southbound 101 at the moment. A crash near the intersection of Broadway and Vigo has traffic pretty well at a standstill. 

The Outpost is still getting to the scene. We’ll update shortly.