Accident backs up traffic along northbound I-5

No one was injured in a two-car collision that backed up traffic along the northbound lanes of I-5 near 164th Street Southwest in Lynnwood Monday afternoon.

Washington State Patrol troopers and the Washington State Department of Transportation managed to re-open all lanes of traffic within 40 minutes of the 3:55

p.m. accident at milepost 183, the transportation department said.

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