Car passing traffic hits pickup, crashes into front of big towtruck, becoming stuck for hours as Caspar Creek Bridge is closed off and on for much of Monday afternoon

A car passing traffic apparently bounced off a pickup and then went into the front of a huge towtruck, sending the vehicle spinning and resulting in those two vehicles being stuck together for much of the afternoon, we learned visiting the scene during a traffic. jam that lasted more than three hours. Monstorous traffic tieups that lasted past 6 p.m. The pickup was removed early, but towing the big tow Pacifc Towing Tow truck and pulling the car out of it took several hours and the tow truck was rescued by a rival company. The collision broke open. the big trucks fuel tank, creating a spill that was cleaned up by FBFD and others. Two of the drivers reported no injuries, but the white sedan driver was injured.

We have no information on the drivers or if alcohol may have been involved or not. These are the type of questions the CHP can help us with and they are doing that, hopefully with an update for you by tomorrow. We were able to reconstruct the crash to the extent we did by observation and talking to people who were on the scene and working to reopen the road plus the CHP log below.

We will add more info about this as we get it. At least one person was taken to the hospital, as we saw the ambulance.

We drove to Caspar and took photos of the scene. We got stuck in traffic by Gibney way. Later, it went all the way to Fort Bragg. Delays of half an hour were observed. Three-car crash on Caspar Creek Bridge. We posted it 10 minutes after it happened, but we have to wait for Facebook Group administrators to put up the stories, which is often too late to help. No word from the CHP on anything but a 5:30 pm notice, hours after saying the road was closed, and there was no word on when it would reopen. It opened shortly after that. The report on the scanner of fire must have referred to fire trucks being on scene; there was no fire that we could see evidence of, using the superzoom Nikon P1000.

There have been an astonishing number of car crashes in Mendocino and Lake counties over the past three days. This afternoon, Caspar Creek Bridge was closed after a three‑car crash around 3:18 p.m. Drivers are urged to avoid the area.

Here is the CHP LOG

Incident:

0063Type:

Trfc Collision-Unkn InjLocation:

SR1 / CR409Loc Desc:

SB JNO ON THE BRIDGELat/Lon:

39.357542 -123.808603