DEKALB COUNTY, Ga.,None — A fatal crash shut down a DeKalb County interstate for hours during the morning commute Tuesday. Police are looking for a tractor-trailer driver in connection with the crash.
The crash happened on Interstate 285 near the East Ponce De Leon Avenue overpass sometime around 5:30 a.m. Police said two people were killed in the crash in a chain reaction.
A tractor-trailer struck a Ford Focus, which then hit a Toyota Camry, DeKalb County police spokeswoman Mekka Parish said. She said the tractor-trailer driver took off, but the other drivers got out of their cars. A fourth vehicle then crashed into the drivers on the interstate and they died, Parish said.
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The fourth driver is hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries and will likely not be charged, but police are still looking for the trucker driver, Parish said.
The southbound lanes of I-285 between Spaghetti Junction and Interstate 20 were shut down for more than two hours, backing up traffic to Chamblee Tucker Road.
"285, you couldn't stir it with a stick," driver John Herring said.
Traffic was being rerouted to Highway 29 at Lawrenceville Highway. Channel 2’s Mark Arum suggested using Interstate 85 South to the downtown connector as an alternate route, but that interstate soon became jammed as a result of the crash. I-285 was reopened shortly after 9 a.m.
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