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Update 2:37 p.m.: US50 is now open in both directions. SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The massive rock that fell onto US50 at Echo Summit Thursday evening was blown up this morning at 10:00 a.m. and the resulting debris is now being cleaned off.
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The massive rock that fell onto US50 at Echo Summit Thursday evening was blown up this morning at 10:00 a.m. and the resulting debris is now being cleaned off.
One of the vehicles involved and emergency personnel. Photo from CHP SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - One person died and several suffered major injuries in a three-vehicle head-on collision on Echo Summit Thursday that closed lanes of the highway for over two hours. At 5:14 p.m. July 22, 2021, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) was called to US50 east of Tamarack Pines Road. They found one car in two pieces, one vehicle on fire, and several injuries. CHP has finished their initial report. According to that report, a 2006 Saturn Vue driven by a female from Sparks, Nevada was heading west in an a...