Four hurt in head-on near Palmer

PALMER — The Glenn Highway has been re-opened after a traffic accident shut it down this morning.

The head-on collision was reported at 8:04 a.m. at Mile 38. An Alaska State Trooper happened on the scene as it was being reported.

Trooper spokeswoman Megan Peters said in an e-mail that a 2007 Subaru station wagon going around a curve with three people on board went straight instead of following the road and wound up hitting a 2005 Chevy pickup front quarter panel to rear quarter panel. There was only one person in the pickup.

The Subaru's occupants were trapped in the wreckage but rescue crews cut them out.

“All four people were transported to the local hospital with what troopers believed were serious, but not life-threatening, injuries,” Peters wrote.

A trooper press release says the driver of the Subaru was a 17-year-old Glennallen boy and identifies the driver of the pickup as Eran Jenkins, 39, of Chugiak. Both vehicles were considered totaled.

Peters said the road was closed until around 9:30 a.m.