Two Tractor Trailers Start a Domino Effect

At 6:45 a.m., like a domino effect, two tractor trailers collided and began a chain reaction, ending with two people dead, and 20 injured.

According to Sgt. Albert Wei of the police department, a total of four tractor trailers and 14 cars were involved in the crash. Beginning with two tractor trailers crushing into each other, it resulted in others swerving, colliding, crashing, and flipping; one after another.

Including in the 20 injured people, four had taken on life threatening injuries. The "Life Flight" helicopter from Memorial Hospital was called to the scene immediately and flew two of the worst injured patients, to the trauma center in Statesville, 50 miles away. All participating in the mishap, witnessed what looked like a scene from a war zone. Fire Chief, Tony Sullivan, said there were bodies laying along the road, people covered with blood sitting next to their cars, emergency workers running from place to place, trying to help the injured and sirens wailing in the distance.

The accident, which occurred in the northbound lanes, on Interstate 790, closed the entire highway, north and south. The interstate was still closed at 10 a.m. and no prediction was made to when it would be open again.