About an eight minute drive time. And also traffic is going to be okay if you are driving in from antioch to bay point. We are starting off pretty well here in contra costa county. Traffic continues to move along very well here from the benicia bridge as you drive down to walnut creek. Lets go back to the desk. We are following breaking news out of oakland. Officers are on the scene of a serious accident that left a passenger critically injured. Tara moriarty is joining us live from 35th and international where the crash happened this morning. Tara. Special Accident Investigation Team is on scene here trying to figure out exactly how this happened. You can see behind me a very violent crash. Officers have two blocks of international boulevard roped off. At this point officers are remaining tight lipped about how this unfolded. All we have been told is a driver reason a red light. Whether it was the driver of the white truck or black sedan we dont node. The accident happened around 10 3
Commute where traffic is still light. As you look at interstate 880 nearby traffic in both directions is looking good. That is interstate 880 on the northbound side. Heading to downtown oakland. If you are going the other way. Looks good. 5 01 lets go back to the desk. An investigation under way right now into a crash that critically injured a pedestrian. Tara moriarty is live at 35th and international. That is where it happened. Good morning, tara. This was a particularly violent crash. The bed of the truck was knocked sheer off the truck. You can see the truck in the roadway there and the bed of it is up on the sidewalk. The Accident Investigation Team is here. They are trying to piece together exactly what happened. Officers have two blocks of international boulevard roped off. Officers are remaining pretty tight lipped about how this unfolded. All we have been told is a driver reason a red light. Whether that was the driver of the white truck or black sedan we dont know. The accide
6 people were injured, 1 is in grave condition right now. Ktvu care care. Were live this morning. Welcome to mornings on 2 im tori campbell. And im dave clark. I got to ask you, youre concerned of thunder and lightning in our area . Its mainly north and east of us. Impressive lows. This has increased the fog for us, most of it continues to favor the Sierra Nevada. It looks like pretty active patterns, but most of that is driving upward. There will be a definite increase in that, the flow around that low is bringing in enough instability so we do have a fire weather watch, delta up to lake county as well, but i think this is marginal for us. 50s on your temps for most, a lot more 50s, overall, this is controlling our lows. It looks like another prime time day, fog, sun, maybe a few clouds to the east. We have a problem approaching the dunbar bridge, theres a big crash involving two trucks and two other vehicles and the commute is slowing down. Theres an accident thats blocking at least
Truck. Officers arent sure if the second worker was hit by the knee san or the truck. One worker died here at the scene. The second worker was taken to Regional Medical center with minor injuries. Both were described as adult males. The driver of the nissan, also described as an adult male were not sure if alcohol played a role, as well. That will all be part of the investigation. The driver of the nissan was extricated from the vehicle and transported to regional with life threatening injuries. Weve seen three tow trucks lined up for when the investigation is done and the chp is ready to clear the scene. Back out here live, there is a lot of debris on the road here, as well. I just got an update from the chp and they told me it will be until at least 6 00 that this road will be closed until we could see it reopened. They say at least 6 00 this morning, so thats at least another hour. Matt keller, abc 7 news. By 6 00, we will be getting into the commute. Its already quite busy. Northbo
That is the tractor trailer that caused the accident at 8 00. We are on the frontage road the northbound lane of highway 17. The truck was going northbound on 17 and according to early reports we hear that he may have lost his brakes and crashed through the railing that separates the main highway from the frontage road. The highway what troll is out here in full force and the reason why this road is going to be closed for another three or four hours is that the Multidisciplinary Accident Investigation Team is deployed here. They are interviewing witnesses. You can see road crews trying to figure out how to repair the rail and we have nine vehicles which were damaged in the multiple vehicle collision that need to be checked out, as well as towed away. This is going to be very painstaking investigation. The elite organization knows how it unfolds and they will put today the cause of the accident. If we can switch to sky 7 we will we show you Something Interesting there are cones along th