One dead after car drives off overpass onto I-5
Apr 10, 2015, 4:21 PM | Updated: Apr 11, 2015, 8:40 am
Traffic backed up from South 288th Street in Federal Way to the Tacoma Dome due to a crash that killed on person Friday afternoon. (WSDOT)
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One person died after a car drove off an overpass onto Interstate 5 near the Tacoma Dome Friday afternoon.
Witnesses reported seeing a Ford Explorer make a sharp right turn, crash through a guardrail and off the L Street overpass and onto the freeway.
Police said no one else was hurt and no other vehicles were involved. Tacoma police Sgt. Frank Richmond put it this way: “How you can do this and fall off the bridge and hit nothing in the middle of rush hour, I don’t know. But that’s what occurred.”
Traffic was reduced to one lane, causing at least a 12-mile backup to Federal Way, according to the Washington State Department of Transportation.
