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Fog making morning commute treacherous; Crash causes I-5 closure

Dec 13, 2023, 6:50 AM | Updated: 4:12 pm

Early morning fog greeted Seattle commuters. (Stephanie Klein)...

Early morning fog greeted Seattle commuters. (Stephanie Klein)

(Stephanie Klein)

The Puget Sound region was blanketed with dense fog Wednesday morning. Some accidents have been reported, but on the whole, traffic has been moving through the challenge successfully.

The big exception was a crash on I-5 early around 2 a.m.

A semi-truck hauling junk vehicles spilled the cars onto southbound Interstate 5.

The highway was impacted for hours.

Traffic was being diverted onto State Route 16 or South 38th Street, but things are back to normal and there were no injuries.

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