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I-5 crash injures van driver, chokes traffic.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 27-FEB-03
Format: Online - approximately 593 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: I-5 crash injures van driver, chokes traffic.(Accidents)(A passenger vehicle crossing the median hits a tractor-trailer rig, whose driver is unhurt despite a fire that destroys his cab)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Susan Palmer The Register-Guard

A wildly careening van smashed into a truck hauling fence posts on Interstate 5 on Wednesday morning, flipping the tractor-trailer and setting it on fire.

The van driver, Springfield resident David Allen Erickson, 57, was critically injured and taken to Sacred Heart Medical Center, but truck driver Bryce Barklow escaped the burning wreck unharmed.

The accident occurred at 10:30 a.m. just north of Cottage Grove, Oregon State Police spokesman Dale Rutledge said.

Before it crossed the median, the Chevrolet van veered off the...

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