Welcome to 11 Alive Plus at 703 on a Tuesday.
We have a mess on the roads.
We have learned after a double
fatal accident on I-75.
This one is tough to get around.
Crash Clark, our traffic expert,
has been tracking it all morning long.
Crash help people get around this. Yeah,
Christy, you're definitely gonna
need some alternates if your pot
of call is anywhere up towards
Marietta along 75 northbound ag.
This wreck coming in about 5:30 this morning.
We were the 1st to tell you
about it and I just had.
A feeling when this wreck occurred and
they were barely letting traffic squeak
by that something major was going on.
We've been in constant contact
with Marietta PD and they let
us know that unfortunately,
two people have lost their lives on 75.
This is northbound right at the South Loop,
the South Marietta Parkway,
as you exit for Kennesaw State University,
and they're going to be out there now.
We are again constantly talking with them.
They're talking about multiple hours now.
This was a chain event.
That happened.
A series of events that startedh
possibly a stalled vehicle thats
struck by another vehicle and te
occupants were outside their ca.
Now there are many times when Iy
if your vehicle stops in the mie
of the road or you're involved in any
kind of an accident where your car is
is not on fire or something where you
have to get out to stay in your vehicle,
put your flashers on,
remain with your seat belt and unfortunately
this series of events have resu.
In two people losing their lives again,
75 northbound,
completely shut down.
That's on the left side there of
your screen as you're watching .
It is completely closed.
Now they diverted most of this
traffic off at the South Loop,
but now these delays as you can imagine
are stretching back towards Deld
Windy Hill and even the perimet.
So from what we understand
from Marietta police,
they're going to continue to try and divert
and bridge this traffic off the Interstate,
off of Delk Road,
off at Windy Hill,
so the surface streets.
Are going to start to fill up to look
on the right side of your scree.
On the right side of your screen
is 75 southbound.
Now southbound traffic impacted
as you can imagine a lot of fols
looking over the side of the ro,
they're saying hey there's a lof
flashing lights so you get those brake
lights you get that bottlenecki.
So 75 S for the morning commutey
heavy as well and if you look te
far right those are the express lanes
and they are moving a little bit better.
So if you have access to an express lane
definitely want to use that as .
Alternate for 75 southbound as u
try to make your way down from .
All right,
let's go over to my maps now as
I want to get you around it.
As you can see the rest of the
rush hour slow to develop.
You got a little bit of red up
towards Marietta or I should say
up towards Gwinnett County.
The East and West Expressway
is filling up in a
little bit in Midtown,
but we've been concentrating alr
efforts here on 75 again northbd
right at the South Loop Hwy. 12.
All lanes will remain closed for seven.
Roll hours now as they continue
to investigate this and let's
zoom it back out because again,
not just impacting 75 N
back to the perimeter,
but it's going to have an impact
for folks traveling to 85,
maybe heading westbound over from Sandy
Springs or even northbound through Vinings.
Now you can also see Cobb Parkwy
is really starting to fill up.
Folks are using that as an
alternate along with Powers Fer,
but right now those are your two best options
because you don't want to try to go 75 N.
It is closed,
so let's talk Cobb Parkway, Cobb Parkway.
Very heavy back towards Windy H,
Spring Rd.
trying to get up past Truest Pa.
Once you do that,
it looks like it's a little bit
of a better ride for you on Cobb
Parkway as you head northbound.
Powers Ferry Little bit of a smaller Rd.
but it's a great alternate.
I used to use it all the time
when there were problems on 75.
In fact,
Powers Ferry will stretch from
the perimeter all the way up pat
the South loop to Roswell Rd.
which basically splits the.
North and South loop so you're easily
able to access anywhere you neeo
be on the east or West side of 5
by using again Powers Ferry Road or Hwy.
41 Cobb Parkway.
Let's look at the overall
impact because again,
75 southbound very heavy.
As folks slow down to take a look at this,
we don't normally see 2530 minute trip
times from Barrett Parkway to the perimeter.
Those speeds have dropped.
You may want to consider,
depending on where you need to o
or what time you need to be the,
you may want to consider Cobb Parkway
heading southbound through Marietta 400,
filling up pretty natural stuff right
there from Windward Pkwy to two 8520 minutes.
Obviously it jams up as you
approach North Springs and North
Ridge trying to get down through
all that construction in Sandy
Springs and of course 85 southb.
We always know Gwinnett County
is a very heavy ride.
From 316 down to 285,
we're up to about 27 minutes no.
We'll call it 1/2 hour from.
From 316 down to the perimeter.
But again,
as we take more looks at this ch
and the investigation that is ensuing,
you could see the sign right there for
KSU campus, just letting you kn.
And that is the South Loop,
the North and South loop,
which pretty much bridge in and
around Marietta around 75.
And again this investigation ongoing,
we could see multiple vehicles there,
multiple agencies responding,
all lanes remain closed,
75 northbound right at the South loop.
And I'm going to move over a
couple of sky trackers so you cn
actually see look at that,
that's why you don't even want
to attempt I-75 N these folks
unfortunately didn't get the wo.
They are stuck in it and remember keep those.
Those right emergency lanes
or left emergency lanes open.
You never know when a first responder has
got to get to the scene of this wreck.
So looks good right here, folks,
leaving those emergency lanes o.
I know it's frustrating.
I've been stuck in things like this before,
but 75 will remain closed
northbound at the South Loop,
probably for the next two to three hours.
That is what they are telling us So the
delays stretching from the perir
all the way up towards the South loop.
Once you get past the scene of ,
you can reenter 75 either from
Cobb Parkway or from Powers Fery
up around the North Loop.
That's probably going to be your best bet.
And if you look on the left side
of your screen you can see that
southbound traffic also starts to clear
once they get by the scene of t.
Now we are going to continue
to update you at 11 alive.com.
We have a photographer on the s.
We can give you one more look t.
This is a live look.
On the left side, that is the s,
75 northbound, closed at the South loop.
On the right side,
very slow on 75 southbound through Marietta.
Again,
we'll update you on air at 7:26 and we'll
continue to update you at 11 alive.com.
Thanks for watching.
Have a good morning.