The Parks Highway at the Glenn Highway interchange was closed down for approximately an hour and a half on Thursday morning following a traffic incident involving several vehicles, Alaska State Troopers reported. AST responded to the scene at 5 am on Thursday to find several vehicles in the ditch along the snowdrift-covered highway. The drifts caused […]
Troopers report that they responded to a traffic fatality at 10:18 pm on Thursday night near mile 68 of the Glenn Highway. According to the trooper dispatch, the driver of a vehicle, who’s name has yet to be revealed, left the roadway and collided with a tree. After the crash, the\vehicle ignited and caught fire. […]
An Anchorage woman was arrested for DUI on Wednesday, despite efforts by a passenger in the vehicle to “hinder prosecution,” after troopers responded to investigate, the trooper dispatch reported on Thursday. Troopers responded to the collision at the Glenn Highway/Parks Highway Interchange at 6:30 pm to find that 23-year-old Mechelle Gaffney collided with the guardrail as […]
(ANCHORAGE, Alaska) – The Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities (DOT&PF) is targeting problematic conditions along Southcentral’s high-speed rural highways in the Anchorage, Matanuska-Susitna Valley and Kenai Peninsula areas to increase safety for Alaskans. A region-wide effort to remove selected trees in higher crash areas is underway. Each year, DOT&PF highway safety engineers evaluate […]