Traffic on I-77 southbound slowed to a crawl Wednesday afternoon after a string of minor related accidents. One person was taken to Presbyterian Hospital with minor injuries, an N.C. Highway Patrol spokesman said.

Meanwhile, police seized a semi-automatic pistol from a 40-year-old Mooresville driver who was stopped on Griffith Street last Friday night. He was charged with drunken driving. And police are continuing their investigation of an armed robbery at the Wachovia Bank ATM on Main Street early Friday morning, Dec. 18.

Those and other incidents are below, along with a summary of the past week’s traffic enforcement on local streets.

3-ACCIDENT INCIDENT ON I-77

A series of multi-vehicle accidents tied up traffic on I-77 southbound for several hours Wednesday afternoon.

The N.C. Highway Patrol told DavidsonNews.net that seven cars were involved in three separate accidents. The first came around 12:30 p.m., in the southbound lane just north of the Westmoreland Road overpass, around mile marker 27.

As a state trooper was working on that two-car accident on the right shoulder, traffic backed up past Exit 28. Around 12:55, the Highway Patrol got another call about accidents north of the original scene, just south of Exit 28.

A state Highway Patrol sergeant said drivers were following too closely and couldn’t stop when the traffic slowed. Three cars collided with one another, then shortly after two others ran into one of those cars.

Nobody was seriously hurt in any of the crashes, though one person was transported to Presbyterian Hospital Huntersville with minor injuries, the sergeant said.

INCIDENT REPORTS

The following incident reports were released by police over the past week, or gathered by DavidsonNews.net.

THURSDAY, DEC. 17 , 8:54 a.m., 18000 block of Dembridge Drive, River Run – A homeowner told police her wooden Christmas Angel, valued at $100, was taken from in front of her home sometime overnight.

FRIDAY, DEC. 18, 12:06 a.m., Wachovia ATM, Main Street – A male victim told police he was confronted by a black male wearing a ski mask and carrying a handgun while use the ATM. The man ran off in the direction of the public library and CVS and left in a gold sedan. Police later released a security camera photo of the robbery in progress. An undisclosed amount of cash and a digital camera were taken. Details in our 2 reports from Friday, Dec. 18, “Man robbed while using ATM on Main Street,” and the later report with photos, “Security camera catches ATM robbery in progress.”

FRIDAY, DEC. 18, 10:46 p.m., 600 block of Griffith Street – After a call from an Iredell County Sheriff’s Department detective who was on the scene, Davidson police arrested a 40-year-old Mooresville man, Jonathan Derek Price, and charged him with driving while intoxicated. They also found a Ruger P89 semi-automatic pistol in the car, which was seized. He was held overnight in Mecklenburg County jail before being released on $1,000 bond.

TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT, DEC. 13-19

• CONCORD ROAD – 2 citations for speeding, 1 for expired registration.
• GRIFFITH STREET – 10 for speeding, 1 for DWI, 1 for driving while license revoked, 1 for illegally tinted windows, 1 for expired registration, 1 for disregard of rights and safety of others.
• JETTON STREET – 1 for expired registration.
• RIVER FORD DRIVE, River Run – 1 for speeding