Morning commuters, watch for traffic delays resulting from Highway 50 helicopter crash
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- Medevac helicopter crashed on eastbound Highway 50; three critically injured.
- Eastbound lanes closed overnight; one lane reopened by 10:15 p.m. Monday night.
- Caltrans, CHP and Sacramento PD set diversions; major ramps and transitions shut.
Look out for slowdowns and redirected traffic Tuesday morning as clean-up continued through the night at the site of a medevac helicopter crash on Highway 50.
The aircraft made an emergency landing and flipped onto its roof on the eastbound lanes of traffic at about 7:10 p.m. Monday night, leaving three people with critical injuries and sending emergency responders to the scene.
Westbound traffic reopened soon after the crash, but the eastbound lanes backed up and remained closed for hours. One eastbound lane reopened as of 10:15 p.m. Monday night, according to a California Highway Patrol traffic update.
As of Monday night, Caltrans, the CHP and the Sacramento Police Department had set up several road closures and diversions.
Among them:
- Eastbound Highway 50 on the W-X Freeway was being diverted at the Highway 99 interchange to the Capital City Freeway and Highway 99. At 9 p.m., traffic continued to back up to the Interstate 5 interchange and the Pioneer Bridge over the Sacramento River.
- Westbound Highway 50 traffic was slow-going but lanes appeared open.
- Traffic on Stockton Boulevard on-ramp to westbound 50 was being turned around.
- Northbound Highway 99 to eastbound Highway 50 transition ramp was shut down.
- Southbound Capital City Freeway on-ramp to Highway 50 east is shut down.
