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closeBELLINGHAM — Traffic slowed to a crawl both ways on Interstate 5 north of East Sunset Drive Wednesday afternoon after a northbound car drove through the median and collided with a southbound pickup.
A 20-year-old Bellingham man was transported to St. Joseph Hospital with only minor injuries after losing control of his Nissan Acura shortly before 4 p.m. It went under the cable barrier before colliding head-on with a pickup driven by a 57-year-old Ferndale man. The pickup driver and his passenger were uninjured.
Washington State Patrol Trooper Keith Leary said the Acura driver was cited for negligent driving, though troopers have no evidence he was speeding or that drugs or alcohol were involved.
State Department of Transportation spokesman Dustin Terpening said it is rare for a vehicle to go through the cable median barrier and into oncoming traffic. Terpening said this was the first time he recalled it happening in the Bellingham area since the barriers went up in 2005.
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