Update, Thursday 3:30 p.m.: Alaska State Troopers have identified the driver in a Wednesday accident on the Parks Highway as 23-year-old Joshua Espinoza of Arizona.
Espinoza was driving a 1999 Ford passenger van when the vehicle hit black ice and he lost control, troopers said. There were nine passengers in the car, all of which were taken to Fairbanks Memorial Hospital to be treated for minor injuries, troopers wrote in an online dispatch.
"Several passengers were not wearing seatbelts at the time of the crash," troopers said.
Espinoza was cited for driving too fast for road conditions.
Original Story: Alaska State Troopers say "nearly everyone" in a passenger van carrying 10 people was injured Wednesday morning when it slid and rolled off the Parks Highway in an area near Healy where state officials reported black ice.
None of the injuries among the driver and nine passengers were life-threatening, troopers spokeswoman Megan Peters said in an email. The southbound van's crash was first reported to troopers at about 7:45 a.m.
"The van ran over some black ice and the driver lost control of the vehicle," Peters wrote. "The van left the roadway and rolled down an embankment."
Responding medics had already begun taking patients to area hospitals before troopers arrived at the scene.
"It sounds like nearly everyone was injured and at least one was initially entrapped," Peters wrote.
According to state road conditions website 511.alaska.gov, the crash took place in a 27-mile belt of the highway, from Mile 225 to Mile 252, in which the state Department of Transportation and Public Facilities reported black ice on the roadway.
Meadow Bailey, a Fairbanks-based spokesperson for the department, said no closures of the highway had been reported but added that traffic had been slowed on the Parks for much of Wednesday morning.
"There'd been delays for at least a while before (the crash)," Bailey said.
Although DOT had trucks out sanding the highway, Bailey said, conditions had been keeping the highway treacherous.
"It's a situation where we're having falling rain, and it's freezing and being covered by snow," Bailey said.
Bailey urged drivers to slow down and allow more time for travel on the Parks Highway.
"People should be prepared for winter driving," Bailey said.