Just before 3:30 p.m. Monday, a three-car crash brought Highway 20 traffic to a stand-still at West Haga Road.

Squealing tires, a crash and a crunch prompted Desiree Miller, who was across the street and inside her home, to look outside at the pile-up. She immediately called 911.

As police reported the incident, the driver of a red Jeep Cherokee Laredo failed to see that the two cars ahead were stopped. Traveling northbound on Highway 20, the Cherokee crashed into a stationary white Mazda pickup truck waiting to turn onto West Hagga Road. Also involved was a Jeep Wrangler waiting to make the same turn.

Van Llewelyn, the driver of the Wrangler, was taken to the hospital with unknown injuries and was released late Monday night.

Although Darin Johnson, the driver of the Mazda, declined to be taken to the hospital, he complained of neck injuries, said Oak Harbor Police Officer Dennis Dickinson.

The driver who apparently caused the accident did not sustain any injuries, he said.

Dickinson said it will take a week or so to prepare his report, but that pending investigation the driver of the Jeep may be cited for traveling too fast to avoid a collision, which carries a $175 fine.

Neither drugs nor alcohol played a part in the accident, he said.

“She probably just wasn’t paying attention,” he said of the driver of the Cherokee.

No changes are likely to come about as a result of the accident, he said, adding that the road was widened last year and paved this year and that new asphalt is slick.

“It’s a better road now than it was before,” he said.