Reporter well, first of all, the traffic situation all lanes of interstate 80 just re opened within the last hour. So that is the good news for commuters out here in this area. Now, what we had this morning was a Chain Reaction situation. An Early Morning crash involving an ambulance shut down several lanes of traffic here in the eastbound lanes of interstate 80 at the cummings skyway. Then two other crashes happened as the traffic was slowing in this area because of the lane closures. The most serious of those crashes involved this big rig, which slammed into the back of a mazda sedan and the driver that have mazda was left dead at the scene. We understand he was a man. There is no other information on the victim in that case. Its unclear exactly why the driver of that big rig was unable to stop. But at the time the chp says that traffic was slowing in this area because there were still lanes closed from that earlier accident up ahead on the freeway. And the chp says when lanes are cl
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So maybe 101 north, sal, some shiny roads if you will. Ill keep an eye out. Thank you very much, steve. Well start this hour with a deadly crash on eastbound interstate 80. It remains partially shut down after three crashes, including one fatality as i just mentioned. Alex savidge is at the scene. Whats the latest . Reporter unfortunately, three separate crashes here in the same spot. And the last of the crashes left one man dead. Let me show you the scene here. And all the crashes happened in the same spot. This is eastbound 80 near the cummings skyway in crockett. And the chp is here and they have the two left lanes closed for the investigation into the final crash that happened here. And it involved that big rig. That truck slammed into the back of a mazda sedan this morning. And the driver of the mazda was dead at the scene. I want to show you video from earlier on. Well show you what the scene looked like. Its unclear why the driver of the big rig was unable to stop and slammed in
Your option to avoid it is the longer way 680, take 780 back. You dont want to do that. Exercise extreme caution. Its been a busy and tragic morning. We are covering it as breaking news overnight. Those two separate crashes plaguing an east bay highway. More pictures to show you. First an ambulance slammed into the back of a construction truck on interstate 80. Hours later, a fourcar pileup leaving at least one person dead. Bob joining us live from the scene. About a minute ago all four lanes of eastbound 80 before were shut down. In the past few moments, chp opened up the number four lane. This is because of this accident involving a big rig and four other vehicles. This happened around 3 20 this morning. Chp is not sure if this was related to the backup of that ambulance accident you were mentioning. What happened was this involved a big rig and it ran over a small mazda car killing the driver inside that car. There were three other vehicles involved in this accident. The people in t
Truck. We know several people were in that ambulance but none were patients. We dont know if fog played a role in this crash. A helicopter had trouble landing because of foggy conditions. Chp cleared that accident, a different crash happened a short distance away. One person unfortunately died in that crash. That involved multiple vehicles including a big rig. Lets go right to mike. That second crash only a half mile from the first one. The big concern there was a loss of life. As far as the drive to the bridge. Here is our map of the day. And travel eastbound away from the bay bridge. At the overpass there, they had that crash and that closes the freeway. Chp let us know you can get off the freeway. There will be a lot of congestion right there not heavily used right now. A light flow of traffic and is there a minor delay because of the scene. Go slowly and carefully if youre heading hercules the rest of the east bay. Or take heyway 4. I would suggest going over there use the off ramp