Route 5 was closed for a short while due to a two car accident.
It was a two car motor vehicle crash
The Norwich police department posted this morning that there was a two car motor vehicle accident on on Route 5 near the vicinity of River Rd, and the road was temporarily closed. It has since been re-opened.
Norwich VT Police Department
1 hr ·
**ROAD RE-OPENED**
*ROAD CLOSED - 8:00a
Rt 5 in the area of River Road is temporarily reduced to single-lane traffic as a result of a two-car motor-vehicle crash.
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It looks like the intersection of route 5 and river road. Police, Fire and a tow truck all responded and road was reopened a short while later.
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