Where there’s shade, water and sub-freezing temperatures, there’s ice.
That was the case early Sunday across the North Olympic Peninsula.
State Patrol troopers and sheriff’s deputies in Clallam and Jefferson counties on Sunday urged motorists to slow down and heed the signs of slippery winter road ice.
After temperatures plunged overnight Saturday and early Sunday in the Peninsula’s lowlands, Sunday morning dawned to sheets of road ice. The phenomenon helped put more than 10 vehicles in ditches between Port Angeles and Sequim. Only minor injuries were reported, with some vehicles overturned.
“It was scary out here,” Washington State Patrol Trooper Randy Gardner said of U.S. Highway 101 just east of Blue Mountain Road, where at least four ice-related spin-out accidents occurred Sunday morning.
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