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TUNNEL ACCIDENT * USA - I-5 disaster may have started outside tunnel
Sources say the initial incident apparently involved a truck that was already about a third of a mile beyond the passageway. After several minutes, slowing traffic led to a chain-reaction pileupLos Angeles,CAL,USA -The Los Angeles Times, by Scott Glover and Matt Lait -October 17, 2007: -- The chain-reaction crash on Interstate 5 that left three people dead and damaged a vital portion of the north-south artery late Friday was apparently set in motion when a trucker hauling a load of coffee beans and other goods emerged from a tunnel and lost control of his vehicle on wet pavement, slamming into a guardrail, sources with knowledge of the investigation said Tuesday... The truck came to rest about a third of a mile south of the tunnel. The force of the crash, which occurred shortly before 11 p.m., caused the truck's engine block to fly over the guardrail and into the northbound freeway lanes. Other debris from the big rig littered the southbound lanes... (Photo by Stephen Osman / Los Angeles Times - AT THE SCENE: A Los Angeles County firefighter walks toward burning wreckage in the truck route tunnel on southbound Interstate 5)
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