FERNDALE, Wash. — First responders were dispatched to the northbound lanes of I-5 north of Slater Road about 8:40pm tonight, April 17th, due to a report of a collision between a car and a motorcycle.
Initial reports from the scene were that it was a non-injury crash.
Northbound traffic was detoured around the crash site via the Slater Road off- and on-ramps until the crashed vehicles could be moved off the roadway.
About 9:10pm and moments after it was reported the crash scene had been cleared and this story was just being published, a second crash was reported in the same area, north of the Slater Road overpass in the northbound lanes. Aid crews were dispatched to the scene.
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Washington State Patrol Trooper Rocky Oliphant confirmed there were only minor injuries sustained in the first collision. A 2016 Volkswagen Jetta collided with a 2001 Honda CBR900 in that incident.
The second incident involved a single vehicle, a 1984 Datsun, and also resulted in minor injuries according to Oliphant.
Oliphant said no criminal citations or charges resulted from either incident.
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