Police investigate serious crash on MLK Parkway

A serious crash involving two trucks closed Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway for almost five hours overnight Tuesday and sent three men to the hospital.

Salem police responded to a crash between a semitruck with a trailer and a pickup truck with a camper trailer, spokesman Sgt. Jonathan Hardy said. The vehicles collided on the parkway north of Northeast Broadway Avenue.

The pickup truck overturned and caught fire. Firefighters had to rescue multiple people who…