Seven people were killed and others hurt in a crash involving multiple vehicles Thursday on Interstate 5 near Albany, Oregon, police said.
Oregon State Police said in a statement that officers responded at about 2:05 p.m. PDT to the crash involving two semi trucks and a passenger vehicle in the northbound lanes about 7 miles north of Albany near the Santiam rest area.Police did not specifically say how many others were hurt.The Marion County medical examiner was at the scene, and bodies covered in plastic could be seen in a nearby field.Oregon State Police troopers and firefighters work near the site of a wrecked tractor-trailer.
Motorist Phil Price told KATU-TV that the deadly scene appeared to take a toll on emergency workers and law enforcement officers. “Everyone was over there working, and you could just see the stress and stuff on, especially a lot of the officers, like the police. You could see a lot of emotion, so you know something was really wrong over there,” he said.Police and fire officials put a blue tarp on the wrecked van and placed a barrier near one of the trucks to block the view of the scene.The cause of the crash was under investigation.
Albany is about 70 miles south of Portland. I-5 is the main north-south interstate highway on the West Coast.
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