Heavy fog blamed for large I-5 pileup involving 15-20 industrial motor automobiles

Oregon State Police are saying heavy fog contributed to an enormous pileup this morning on Interstate 5 close to Brownsville, about 28 miles north of Eugene.

Officers say greater than 60 automobiles — together with between 15 and 20 industrial motor automobiles — had been concerned in a number of collisions that occurred at about 8 a.m. Pacific.

Oregon State PoliceOne individual has been confirmed useless within the pileup that occurred on southbound I-5 close to the OR 228 Halsey-Brownsville exit. The crashes span over a stretch of the interstate between mileposts 228 and 211, in keeping with Oregon State Police.

Visitors was detoured on the OR 228 exit to OR 99E.

Northbound I-5 site visitors was backed up from the Bond Butte Drive overpass for about three and a half miles, in keeping with state police. ODOT stories that the left lane of northbound I-5 is closed at milepost 211 so southbound drivers will be rotated into the northbound lanes.

The Oregon Division of Transportation quickly lowered the cable barrier to detour automobiles caught within the gridlock. College buses from Eugene are getting used to move stranded drivers to Pioneer Villa at exit 216.

HAZMAT crews responded to wash up fluids leaking from some six of the industrial motor automobiles concerned within the crash. State police say a number of tractor-trailers jackknifed or rolled.