FRIDAY AFTERNOON ACCIDENT SHUTS DOWN EAST BOUND LANE OF U.S. 290

  

Several minor injuries were reported following a three-vehicle accident, Friday afternoon near Chappell Hill.

Authorities were called out just before 5:30 p.m. to the intersection of US Highway 290 East and Bluebonnet Boulevard, at the entrance to Bluebonnet Hills Subdivision.

Authorities say all drivers and passengers were out of the vehicles as they arrived at the scene.

The Chappell Hill Fire Department was called on to help mitigate a paint spill from the back of one of the vehicles involved.

Traffic in the east bound lane was shut down for about one hour.

(PHOTOGRAPHS: Mark Whitehead, KWHI)