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I-90 closure: Mass collision near Vantage

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Marissa Luck Jul 14, 2025

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>I-90 closure: Mass collision near Vantage</h1>
                <h2><p>Updated at 4:52 p.m. A day ahead of a huge maintenance project on I-90 in Seattle, the freeway had a shutdown Thursday 120 miles away, near Vantage. Eleven people were injured in a 21-vehicle smashup. A brush fire was reported in the area. The highway reopened early in</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/marissaluck7-gmail-com/">Marissa Luck</a></p> 
              <p><time datetime="2025-02-04T05:00:00-08:00">Feb 6, 2018</time></p>
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            <p><em>Updated at 4:52 p.m.</em> A day ahead of a huge maintenance project on I-90 in Seattle, the freeway had a shutdown Thursday 120 miles away, near Vantage. Eleven people were injured in a 21-vehicle smashup. A brush fire was reported in the area. The highway reopened early in the afternoon, but then the state Department of Transportation shut down the Eastbound lanes again because of visibility problems. And WSDOT tweeted late this afternoon that it probably won't reopen until Friday. The upcoming maintenance project starts Friday night, shutting down all but one lane of westbound I-90 across Lake Washington, leading to predictions of carmageddon. That, in turn, will lead to lighter-than-expected traffic on Monday, followed by commuters deciding there isn't such a big problem, and then real problems beginning to mount on Wednesday (when, as <a href="http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2014/07/16/obama-is-back-tuesday-to-raise-money-and-tie-up-traffic/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">Joel Connelly of seattlepi.com writes</a>, President Obama will likely complicate things with a trip to the Eastside to indulge in the political obsession with big money). Collison pics- EB I 90 MP 127. <a href="http://t.co/pV635H84iC?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">pic.twitter.com/pV635H84iC</a>— Trooper Wright (@wspd6pio) <a href="https://twitter.com/wspd6pio/statuses/489865738862071808?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">July 17, 2014</a></p>
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Updated at 4:52 p.m. A day ahead of a huge maintenance project on I-90 in Seattle, the freeway had a shutdown Thursday 120 miles away, near Vantage. Eleven people were injured in a 21-vehicle smashup. A brush fire was reported in the area. The highway reopened early in the afternoon, but then the state Department of Transportation shut down the Eastbound lanes again because of visibility problems. And WSDOT tweeted late this afternoon that it probably won't reopen until Friday. The upcoming maintenance project starts Friday night, shutting down all but one lane of westbound I-90 across Lake Washington, leading to predictions of carmageddon. That, in turn, will lead to lighter-than-expected traffic on Monday, followed by commuters deciding there isn't such a big problem, and then real problems beginning to mount on Wednesday (when, as Joel Connelly of seattlepi.com writes, President Obama will likely complicate things with a trip to the Eastside to indulge in the political obsession with big money). Collison pics- EB I 90 MP 127. pic.twitter.com/pV635H84iC— Trooper Wright (@wspd6pio) July 17, 2014

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By Marissa Luck

Marissa Luck is a Tacoma-based writer and editorial intern at Crosscut. She has previously reported on issues of activism, homelessness, and Olympia city news for Works in Progress and Olympia Power &

Marissa Luck is a Tacoma-based writer and editorial intern at Crosscut. She has previously reported on issues of activism, homelessness, and Olympia city news for Works in Progress and Olympia Power &