Update: Southbound I-5 traffic resumes after crash involving car hauler, van near Ferndale

Jack Belcher
·1 min read

A traffic collision reported around 2:50 p.m. Tuesday blocked all lanes of southbound traffic on I-5 near Portal Way in Ferndale. Traffic finally resumed through the area around 5:15 p.m. after the scene had been cleared.

Motorists were encouraged to seek alternate routes. Fire and Washington State Patrol were the initial responders.

An image from the scene of a crash involving a car hauler and a van Tuesday, March 19, on I-5 near Ferndale, WA.
An image from the scene of a crash involving a car hauler and a van Tuesday, March 19, on I-5 near Ferndale, WA.

“A car hauler was traveling too fast while attempting to enter I-5 southbound from Portal Way, causing it to tip over and slide across the Interstate in front of traffic when a van traveling south on I-5 struck the hauler,” Trooper Kelsey Harding, who serves as public information officer for WSP, stated on Twitter.

The driver of the van suffered non-life-threatening injuries, while the driver of the car hauler reported no injuries.

I-5 traffic was backed up for several miles north of Ferndale.

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