A snowstorm that swept through the East Coast yesterday caused a 116-vehicle pileup in northern Virginia.
The pileup was triggered when a car hit a tractor-trailer. One person was killed and more than 100 injured in the 3-mile mess on I-95 near Garrisonville. Fourteen were taken to the hospital.
The storm swept from the Carolinas up into New York, dumping 10 inches in parts of southern Pennsylvania and about 6 inches elsewhere. Traffic accidents killed 11 people in Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and West Virginia. North of Baltimore, a 5-mile stretch of southbound I-95 was closed for more than two hours following a series of crashes.
The weather today is supposed to be better. The snow has stopped, and temperatures are forecast to climb into the 40s and 50s.
"I've seen a lot of bad weather, a lot of wrecks, a lot of killing. On a scale of one to 10, this is a 10," Jim Roberts, a trucker who got stuck behind a crash on Interstate 64 east of Charlottesville, told the Associated Press.
Elsewhere on I-64, a tractor-trailer carrying tires, another carrying frozen food and two other trucks collided, dumping their cargos on the road. The tires caught fire and burned for several hours.
The pileup was triggered when a car hit a tractor-trailer. One person was killed and more than 100 injured in the 3-mile mess on I-95 near Garrisonville. Fourteen were taken to the hospital.
The storm swept from the Carolinas up into New York, dumping 10 inches in parts of southern Pennsylvania and about 6 inches elsewhere. Traffic accidents killed 11 people in Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and West Virginia. North of Baltimore, a 5-mile stretch of southbound I-95 was closed for more than two hours following a series of crashes.
The weather today is supposed to be better. The snow has stopped, and temperatures are forecast to climb into the 40s and 50s.
"I've seen a lot of bad weather, a lot of wrecks, a lot of killing. On a scale of one to 10, this is a 10," Jim Roberts, a trucker who got stuck behind a crash on Interstate 64 east of Charlottesville, told the Associated Press.
Elsewhere on I-64, a tractor-trailer carrying tires, another carrying frozen food and two other trucks collided, dumping their cargos on the road. The tires caught fire and burned for several hours.
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