Two-car crash blocks two lanes on I-405 in northwest Bellevue

KING COUNTY, WA — A two-vehicle collision Friday morning closed two right lanes on Interstate 405 near the Midlakes neighborhood in Bellevue, reports Washington State Department of Transportation.

The accident took place on a stretch of I-405 northbound near Northeast 8th Street shortly before 7:50 a.m.

Traffic video shared by WSDOT shows the occupants of two passenger cars standing outside their vehicles as traffic moved around them. Considerable damage can be observed on the front-left side of one of the cars.

At 8:12 a.m., Washington State Patrol and members of Incident Response Team (IRT) arrived at the scene to help clear the accident to the right hand shoulder.

No further updates have been shared on what led up tot he incident.

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