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Fourteen trucks collide on wet Calif. highwayBy The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES -- Fourteen big-rig trucks collided on an interstate made slippery by rain yesterday, injuring three people and littering the roadway with torn metal and jackknifed trailers.
The chain-reaction crash was one of more than 200 accidents reported on wet Los Angeles County highways.
The "massive domino-effect collision" about 25 miles north of downtown began shortly after 3:40 a.m. when a big-rig went out of control and hit a concrete barrier on Interstate 5, California Highway Patrol Officer Wilbur H. Dixon said.
Another truck leaving a tunnel about 100 feet away applied its breaks but jackknifed and slammed into a stalled truck, which was blocking one of the two southbound truck lanes, Dixon said.
Within minutes, a dozen other 18-wheelers hauling trailers on the state's main north-south artery met the same fate as they emerged from the tunnel.
One man was treated at the scene, and a 16-year-old girl with a fractured leg and a 34-year-old woman who complained of back problems were taken to a hospital for examination.
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