UPDATE: Victim crushed by falling hay bales in 299E pile-up near Ingot ID’d
UPDATED: Thursday, Nov. 12, 11:45 a.m.
See Original Story and initial update below.
INGOT, Calif. — Officials this morning identified the victim of a multiple-vehicle crash involving a hay hauling big rig and four other vehicles, Tuesday morning, Nov.10. The chain-reaction crashes happened east of Bella Vista on SR-299E, between Sugar Pine Camp and Oak Run roads, about one and a half miles east of Ingot.
The stretch of winding, two-lane mountain highway where the accident occurred has several dangerous back-to-back curves and has been the site of numerous recent big rig rollovers and major injury accidents.
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One of the involved motorists whose car was crushed by the falling hay bales sustained fatal injuries and was pronounced deceased at the scene by emergency personnel, Shasta County Chief Deputy Coroner Lieutenant Stonehouse confirmed this morning.
“The decedent was positively identified as 52-year-old, Elizabeth Marcia Chick, of Ione, California,” Stonehouse reported. “The decedent’s next-of-kin has been notified and the postmortem examination will be scheduled.”
CHP has since confirmed that around 10 a.m., a westbound tractor-trailer hauling a large load of 1,200-pound hay bales was attempting to negotiate a set of curves along the dangerous stretch of highway when six of the large bales shifted and fell off the truck.
According to CHP, the falling bales of hay landed on Chick’s eastbound Honda Civic, sending hay and vehicle debris in every direction.
The impact crushed the Honda, causing Chick’s vehicle to swerve into oncoming traffic, where her Honda then struck another vehicle, said CHP. Two other cars then crashed into the hay bales as well as Chick’s vehicle and debris left from the initial collision.
No information about the other drivers was available as of this update and Tuesday’s deadly collision remains under investigation by the California Highway Patrol.
Anyone with information related to the investigation or who witnessed the crash and has not yet provided a statement to authorities is encouraged to contact CHP – Redding at (530) 225-0500. Callers can refer to incident file number 9135-2020-00810 and can remain anonymous.
UPDATED: Tuesday, Nov. 10, 1:50 p.m.
See Original Story below.
INGOT, Calif. — Although no further details have been released, Cal-Trans District 2 reported around 1:20 p.m., that Highway 299E has been reopened and traffic is returning to normal.
This continues to be a developing story that will be updated as new information is available.
Original Story: One dead after multi-vehicle 299E pile-up near Ingot
INGOT, Calif. — Very few details have been released and authorities are still working at the scene of a deadly crash near Ingot that reportedly killed at least one person earlier today, Tuesday, Nov. 10.
The deadly crash, which involved a tractor-trailer big rig hauling 1,200 pound bales of hay, happened on SR-299E, between Sugar Pine Camp and Oak Run roads, about one and a half miles east of Ingot. The stretch of winding, two-lane mountain highway where the accident occurred, which has several dangerous back-to-back curves, has been the site of numerous recent big rig rollovers and major injury accidents.
CHP and other emergency personnel were alerted to the fatal collision between mile markers 44 and 45 sometime around 11 a.m., according to social media releases from Cal-Trans District 2; who reported, “All lanes blocked east of Ingot Canyon in Shasta County due to an accident.”
A fire official from the Montgomery Creek Volunteer Fire Department told a motorist stuck in traffic at the scene that initial and unconfirmed reports indicated that several hay bales had fallen off a westbound hay hauler, leading to a chain-reaction, multiple-vehicle accident.
Although no information has yet been confirmed by CHP, according to the fire official, an eastbound motorist plowed into the hay bale, sending hay and vehicle debris in every direction; and that at least three other motorists then became involved in a chain-reaction pile-up.
Area residents are being advised to seek alternate routes, due to what is expected to be an hours-long investigation and clean-up.
Contacted for more information, a CHP representative confirmed officials were still working at the scene and that no further details or information were available at that time.
This is a developing story that will be updated as new information becomes available.
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