Tanker Truck Accident Snarls Traffic On Interstate 5
ELK GROVE (CBS13) – An accident involving a tanker truck and two cars snarled the morning commute on northbound Interstate 5 in Elk Grove on Tuesday morning, according to the CHP.
The accident happened just after 7:30 a.m. on I-5 at Elk Grove Boulevard. The CHP says a tanker truck rear-ended a sedan, pushing the sedan into a pick-up truck.
The pick-up truck ended up upside down, the tanker truck jack-knifed and the sedan was smashed in on the both ends.
"I was hit from the back and we started spinning and we hit the car in front of us, so the car was just bouncing around like a ping pong ball," said the sedan's driver, off-duty Sacramento police officer Greg Dieckmann.
CHP says only one person, the driver of the pick-up track was taken to the hospital with minor injuries.
Dieckmann said his kids, ages 14, 11, and 9 were in the backseat of the car when the truck slammed into them. They were shaken up, but OK. Dieckmann's pinkie finger was broken in the crash.
"Little bit of a crooked finger that I'll get straightened out here pretty quick," he told CBS13's Nick Janes. "I'm just lucky that's all that happened."
His kids were able to go on to school.
