Southbound 101 Snarled Coming into Eureka Due to Multi-Car Collision

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Readers are telling us that the crash detailed by CHP dispatch, below, has southbound traffic just about stopped coming into Eureka.

No injuries, the CHP is currently saying, but tow trucks are being sent for several vehicles that bumped into one another into the bridge over the Eureka Slough.


5:29 p.m.
[2] APPEARS NON INJURY
5:29 p.m.
[1] MULT VEH TC
5:30 p.m.
[4] [Appended, 17:30:47] [1] TAN HOND ACC, SMALL DODG TK, AND POSS OTHER VEHS
5:31 p.m.
Unit Assigned
5:31 p.m.
Unit Enroute
5:32 p.m.
[8] JNO BRIDGE/BOTH LNS STOPPED
5:32 p.m.
Unit Enroute
5:32 p.m.
Unit Assigned
5:33 p.m.
Unit At Scene
5:33 p.m.
[10] #2 LN MOVING NOW
5:33 p.m.
Unit Enroute
5:33 p.m.
[11] SOUTH END OF BRIDGE
5:34 p.m.
[12] [Notification] [CHP]-Problem changed from 1183-Trfc Collision-Unkn Inj to 1182-Trfc Collision-No Inj by CHP
5:34 p.m.
[13] 4 VEHS
5:37 p.m.
[18] [Rotation Request Comment] 1039 PACIFIC TOWING 707-443-8482
5:40 p.m.
Unit At Scene
6:01 p.m.
Unit Cleared

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