Reduced visibility due to dense fog caused accidents creating a 33 vehicle pileup, with numerous resulting injuries.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS STO wrote it up.
Reduced visibility due to dense fog caused accidents creating a 33 vehicle pileup, with numerous resulting injuries.
1 dense fog. Local standard time, as filed.
Thirteen separate collisions caused a 33 vehicle pileup in dense fog on Interstate 5 near Lodi. There were 16 injuries reported, one of them serious.
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