16-vehicle pileup on North Carolina interstate snarls traffic for hours

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North Carolina State Highway Patrol said a truck carrying traffic cones hit a bump on Interstate 26 in Henderson County, causing a chain reaction that resulted in a 16-care pileup on Monday morning, March 17, 2025.   MORE: https://wlos.com/news/local/highway-patrol-truck-loses-construction-cones-causing-16-vehicle-pileup-on-26-east# _______________ Follow WLOS on social media:  WLOS ABC 13 News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/News13/ WLOS ABC 13 News on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WLOS_13 WLOS ABC 13 News on Instagram: https://instagram.com/wlos_13  Subscribe to WLOS on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ABC13Channel/?sub_confirmation=1   Listen to AnchorMOMS, the Podcast:  https://wlos.com/news/anchormoms/anchormoms-the-podcast  Watch more top local news stories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk8Ge6UXHJs&list=PLkVbaoT-aYbIvnEpR0Ct5QQQqYaORUSUH  For all of the day’s top local and national news, visit http://www.wlos.com Watch our live newscasts and other live video at https://wlos.com/watch  Have a news tip? Send it directly to us:   Email us: news@wlos.com  Call the Newsroom: 828.684.1340   WLOS ABC 13 News serves the Asheville, NC area and the rest of western North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina. We keep our audience informed through local news, weather forecasts, traffic updates, notices of community events, sports and entertainment programming since 1954.  #wlos #ashevillenews #northcarolinanews #abc13news  This video and all Sinclair Broadcast Group content archives of local news and sports coverage are available for your use. For more information contact us at contentsales@sbgtv.com

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00:00Portion of I-26 East was closed for hours this morning after a 16 car pileup caused a major backup.

00:06News 13's Taylor Thompson was there and takes us through what led to this chain reaction crash.

00:12I'm here just in front of the Peter Geist Memorial Bridge where you can see traffic is

00:15once again flowing but that was a very different scene for about two and a half hours on Monday

00:20morning when a tractor trailer hit a car leading to a 16 car pileup. Almost a dozen tow trucks were

00:27going back and forth near mile marker 55 working to get vehicles out of the roadway. State highway

00:33patrols as they received a call around 7 45 a.m it started with a truck that had hit a bump in

00:38the road and lost their construction cones. This caused traffic to slow down leading a tractor

00:44trailer in the left lane to hit a car in front of it starting a significant chain reaction as the

00:49tractor trailer was coming onto the bridge. One of the drivers involved in the pileup says he had

00:54never seen anything like this before. Just driving and you know traffic's usually bad in this area

00:59anyway but uh it was just stop and go stop and go heard a loud clash behind me and I looked back

01:05and the 18-wheeler was just taking out multiple cars. The crash caused a major backup with I-26

01:11East being shut down at exit 54 for about two and a half hours and state highway patrol says there

01:17were a few injuries but to their knowledge none of them were life-threatening. The portion of the

01:21interstate reopened a little before 10 30 monday morning. In Henderson County, I'm Taylor Thompson, News 13.

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