A five-car crash Wednesday night injured five people, with two being flown out of town with serious injuries, police said.
At about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, the Juneau Police Department got a report of the crash, which happened in the 8100 block of Egan Drive near Fred Meyer, according to a JPD release. Witnesses saw a silver Ford Focus driving outbound on Egan when the car did a U-turn in the middle of the road and began driving the wrong way on the outbound side of the road, police said. The Focus hit a silver Toyota Sienna head-on, according to the release.
The drivers of three other cars tried to stop but couldn’t, and crashed into each other, the release states. These cars were a white Toyota Yaris (driven by a 31-year-old man), a red Mercury Mariner (driven by a 65-year-old man) and a white Ford pickup (driven by a 30-year-old man), according to the release. All of the drivers are Juneau residents, police said.