Exercise 2, Story 2, Chapter 9

There was a dreadful accident that occurred on Interstate 790 at 6:45 a.m. in the morning. The incident happened when two tractor-trailers collided and started a chain reaction crash involving a total of four tractor-trailers and 14 cars. According to Sgt. Albert Wei of the police department, two people driving cars were killed and twenty other people were injured and taken to the hospital. Tony Sullivan, the local fire chief, was told by one of the ambulance drivers that four of those 20 injured are seriously hurt and had injuries that are life threatening. Sullivan stated that his firefighters had to cut the roofs off three of the cars to free the drivers and passengers that were trapped inside. All five ambulances from the fire department were called on the scene along with ambulances from four nearby citys’ fire departments and the “Life Flight” helicopter from Memorial Hospital in Andover. The helicopter was used to fly two seriously injured people to the Trauma Center in Statesville, which is 50 miles away. Sullivan said the scene of the accident looked like a war zone and that he had never seen anything that bad in the 18 and a half years he’s been with the fire department. The accident, which happened in the northbound lanes, closed the entire highway, north and south and is still closed at 10 a.m. Wei said he had no idea when the interstate would be re-opened and that the police department is still investigating the accident.