There was plenty of rain in the Valley last week and in fact the .46 inches of rain on Sunday, beat the record for January 11 of .29 inches which was set in 1949.
However, the wet roads led to an enormous number of crashes with troopers responding to 143 just in that one day, with 43 resulting in injuries. In the week as a whole, they responded to an average of 36 crashes a day.
In one of the accidents on Sunday, a trooper was in his vehicle at the scene of a crash on U.S. Highway 95, near Eastern Avenue, when a gold Ford 500 collided with a blue Toyota Camry and the trooper’s marked patrol car and then rolled over.
The 34 year old trooper and two women in the Ford sedan were taken to University Medical Center with non life threatening injuries.
Some lanes on U.S. Highway 95, Interstate 15 and the 215 Beltway were closed following 16 of the crashes and there were more than 60 accidents in surface streets in the 12 hours after 6 a.m. on Sunday.
According to meteorologists, the storm which affected Southern California all the way into the southern part of Nevada slowly moved to the northeast valley on Sunday morning.
If you, or someone you know, have been the victim of a serious car accident, contact the Reno accident attorneys of Jolley Urga Woodbury & Little at (702) 699-7500 or contact us online today.
