By Bay City News.
All lanes of U.S. 101 in Sunnyvale reopened nearly nine hours after a crash that killed three people and sent five others to the hospital Monday morning.
The chain-reaction collision was reported around 12:30 a.m. on the northbound 101 Freeway, just south of Fair Oaks Avenue.
The California Highway Patrol said the crash was triggered when a northbound Ford pickup truck hit the center divider and came to a stop, blocking some northbound lanes. Other cars then hit the pickup truck and also came to a stop in northbound lanes.
Three people got out of the cars and were standing nearby when another vehicle collided with them, causing two to be thrown into the southbound lanes, where another vehicle subsequently struck them.