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UPDATE: KGB re-opened following accident

Frontiersman Archive Aug 30, 2010

Rescue personnel remove the driver of a Ford Explorer Monday
evening after a two-vehicle accident at the intersection of
Knik-Goose Bay Road and Fairview Loop. Traffic was shut down in
both d — Rescue personnel remove the driver of a Ford Explorer Monday evening after a two-vehicle accident at the intersection of Knik-Goose Bay Road and Fairview Loop. Traffic was shut down in both directions Monday around 7:40 p.m. when an F-series Ford pickup and the Explorer collided. The pickup was pulling a horse trailer with four horses inside. A passenger in the Explorer was transported to the hospital by ambulance and the driver was taken by LifeMed helicopter. The occupants of the pickup and the four horses were not injured.

Knik-Goose Bay Road is open again after being closed for nearly six hours in both directions at Fairview Loop following a Monday evening collision that sent two people to the hospital.

Emergency responders arrived at the scene at about 7:40 p.m. to find a Ford Explorer had collided with an F-series Fort pickup towing a horse trailer carrying four horses. The horses and occupants of the pickup escaped without injury, but the driver and passenger in the Explorer both received medcal attention. The passenger was transported to the hospital by ambulance and the driver, after being extricated from the SUV, was airlifed by LifeMed.

Alaska State Troopers investigated the accident scene until about 1:30 a.m., then allowed the road to re-open to traffic. Identities of those involved or the extend of injuries was not immediately known.

This story will be updated as more information is made available.