Holiday traffic and slick roads keeping tow trucks and law enforcement busy

North Upper Truckee and Sawmill Road have become parking lots Monday afternoon, reminiscent of 2017's problems of ill-equipped vehicles on snow covered back roads.

The California Highway Patrol and El Dorado County Sheriff's Office have spent Monday responding to several calls in the Meyers area of cars stuck on side roads as they attempt to circumvent the backlog of traffic on Highway 50.

Along with those issues there have been several accidents and as of 3:30 p.m, State Route 88 may have to close due to a crash

At 3:09 p.m., a Caltrans vehicle was involved in a collision at the intersection of Mandan St and Oglala Street, and CHP is responding to a single car accident at State Route 89 and Cascade Roads. Another crash at the same time is on Highway 50 in Strawberry, a two-car collision.

There are currently only road controls on State Route 88 and 89, both north and south from South Lake Tahoe, the Mt. Rose Highway and on I-580 through the Washoe Valley.