BREAKING UPDATE: Multi-car accident shuts down Market St.

NEW HANOVER COUNTY, NC (WWAY) — Authorities shut down a portion of Market Street at Alexander Street near Jones Fish Camp after a multi-car wreck this afternoon.

The hospital helicopter used the street as a landing area to transport injured.

The Highway Patrol is investigating what happened to cause the wreck.

We’ll have more on this story as it comes into the newsroom.