About 40 cars in pile-up on snowy highway near Detroit

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

U.S. | Sat Dec 10, 2016 | 7:33pm EST

About 40 cars in pile-up on snowy highway near Detroit

A pile-up involving about 40 cars in snowy conditions forced the temporary closure of part of Interstate 75 northwest of Detroit on Saturday and several motorists were injured, a spokesman for state police said.

Michigan State Police posted photographs on Twitter of cars with damage to their bumpers and several vehicles with their trunks popped open, apparently after colliding with each other.

No one was killed in the collision less than 40 miles northwest of Detroit, but some people were transported to area hospitals with injuries that were not life threatening, according to the tweets from the Metro Detroit section of Michigan State Police.

The cause of the crash is under investigation, Michigan State Police spokesman Lieutenant Michael Shaw said by telephone.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-michigan-crash-idUSKBN13Z0TT

[superpatriotman]

1. Unconfirmed but

I just know my Mother was involved or to blame somehow.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. I understand too well.

Before my father died (as a result of ineptitude behind the wheel of his car), whenever an accident was reported on the news, my sister and I would hold our collective breaths until we were sure it wasn't Dad. He was almost 92 and shouldn't have been driving on highways, let alone down the street for milk. We discussed taking away his keys but were sure he'd disinherit us. Guess what? We didn't take away his keys and were disinherited anyway.

[pinboy3niner]

6. My first thought was MrScorpio

[uppityperson]

2. Here's a twitter thing with a couple picts, what a mess

https://mobile.twitter.com/mspmetrodet/status/807687900062216192

[Warpy]

3. Looks like people were going slow enough

but visibility was really poor.

Around here, we get idiots from California going 65 in 4 WD vehicles on black ice. Wrecks can be a lot worse.

[Siwsan]

4. There was another pileup on the 7th, by Fowlerville (close to Ann Arbor) with 3 dead

Rough start to the winter driving season, in Michigan.

http://www.livingstondaily.com/story/news/2016/12/08/30-car-pileup-reported--96-near-fowlerville/95138030/