UPDATE: The AJC’s Jamie Gumbrecht alerts us of this update:  “Regarding reports of a 20-car accident at Clairmont and Mason Mill Road, state Department of Transportation officials and DeKalb police say there were a series of stalls, but no physical accident. The vehicles are off to the side.”

I bet it’s because of that damn big hill in front of the VA hospital.

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My wife informed me that 11alive just reported a massive multi-car pile up on Clairmont, north of Decatur, at Mason Mill.  Here’s all I can find online thus far…

9:19 AM 01/08/10 Incident CLAIRMONT RD Southbound at MASON MILL RD Multi-vehicle accident:

APPROX. 20 VEHICLES INVOLVED

Andisheh sends in this photo and Julia provides this account:

Right in the intersection of Commerce and Ponce an SUV and a guy on a moped/scooter collided. He was pretty shaken up but the ambulance and cops got there pretty quickly.

On Twitter, Robbie Harris reports that the scooter driver was a 16-year old kid.

I’ll try to find out the scooter rider’s condition. UPDATE: Andisheh reported on Twitter that the scooter driver survived.

What is with this intersection lately?  I wonder if there’s any sort of report that shows the most dangerous intersections in Decatur.    That could be pretty interesting.

Nick sends along this pic and reports (via Twitter) a pretty nasty accident at East College & Commerce around 2:15p this afternoon.  He also mentions that traffic is pretty much “FUBAR” at this point while responders clean up the mess.  No word on injuries.

Needless to say, you probably want to avoid this intersection for a bit.