Deadly big rig crash on I-5 near Walnut Grove (2025)

RIGHT NOW. I’LL SEND IT BACK TO YOU GUYS. ALL RIGHT. TAMARA, THANK YOU. WELL, THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF ISSUES OUT THERE ON THE ROADS THIS MORNING, AND THAT DOES INCLUDE A DEADLY ACCIDENT THAT’S HAPPENED OUT ON INTERSTATE FIVE. IT TOOK PLACE BEFORE FIVE THIS MORNING ON SOUTHBOUND I-5 NEAR TWIN CITIES ROAD. KCRA 3’S. MIKE TESELLE IS LEARNING NEW DETAILS ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED AND JOINS US LIVE. GOOD MORNING MIKE. YEAH. AND A SCARY AND SAD SCENE BEHIND ME. RIGHT BEHIND ME. THAT IS I-5. WE ARE STANDING ON LAMBERT ROAD FOR PERSPECTIVE, WHICH GOES RIGHT UNDERNEATH THE FREEWAY. WHAT? YOU’LL NOTICE THOSE HEADLIGHTS THAT ARE FACING US. THAT IS A BIG RIG PERPENDICULAR TO I-5, BLOCKING THE NUMBER ONE LANE. NOW TAKE A LOOK AT THIS VIDEO. BECAUSE WE WERE ACTUALLY DRIVING TOWARDS STOCKTON THIS MORNING TO COVER WEATHER IN THE SOUTH AREA. AND THIS IS WHAT WE CAME UPON AS WE WERE DRIVING ON FREEWAY SPEEDS, WE WERE ABLE TO SLOW DOWN, BUT WE COULD SEE THIS BIG RIG AND IT WAS FRESH ENOUGH THAT RIGHT ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BIG RIG, SADLY, WE SAW A SEDAN WITH THE ENTIRE TOP OF THE SEDAN SHEARED OFF AS IT APPEARS, JUST FROM THE VISUALS THAT IT LOOKS AS THOUGH THAT SEDAN MAY HAVE GONE UNDER THIS BIG RIG. AND SO A, YOU KNOW, CONFIRMED FATALITY HERE, A SAD SCENE. BUT AS WE COME BACK OUT HERE LIVE, ALSO A REMINDER THAT IN THIS RAIN, THERE’S STANDING WATER, THERE’S PONDING. AND THOSE FREEWAY SPEEDS SOMETHING TO TAKE SLOWER. THIS MORNING FOR INSTANCES LIKE THIS, YOU CAN’T EXPECT A BIG RIG IN FRONT OF YOU TO JACKKNIFE. AND REALLY, PROBABLY NO TIME TO REACT FOR THAT SEDAN DRIVER INVESTIGATION. CONTINUING FOR THOSE DRIVERS. BEWARE THIS BIG RIG RIGHT NOW BLOCKING ONE OF TWO LANES. GOING TO REMAIN THAT WAY FOR QUITE SOME TIME. THE CORONER ON SCENE RIGHT NOW. AND THEN THEY GOT TO WORK WITH THE BIG RIG TOWS TO GET THIS JACKKNIFED BIG RIG OFF OF THE FREEWAY. LIVE ON LAMBERT ROA