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Multi-Vehicle Accident Closes Roosevelt Boulevard, 3 Hospitalized

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Roosevelt Boulevard was closed for about an hour Monday evening after a multi-vehicle accident and car fire clogged both north and southbound lanes.

Just after 9:00 p.m. a car caught fire in the northbound lanes of U.S. Route 1 near the Wissahickson Avenue exit.

According to police, two oncoming vehicles in the southbound lanes collided attempting to avoid the car fire.

A 28-year-old female, 50-year-old male and a 5-year-old child were transported with non-life threatening injuries to Einstein Medical Center in stable condition.

At 10:15 the accident scene had been cleared and traffic returned to normal.

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