6 Dead After Fatal Multi-Vehicle Pileup After Freezing Rain Leaves Road Covered With Ice
A series of storms expected to last for days mixed with an Arctic air mass to bring snow and freezing rain as far as south as Texas along with the winter weather caused a multi-vehicle pileup where six people lost their lives.
A series of storms expected to last for days mixed with an Arctic air mass that brought snow and freezing rain as far south as Texas along with the winter weather caused a multi-vehicle pileup where six people lost their lives.
A line of freezing rain stretched from Texas to West Virginia, with some of it accumulating to one-quarter to one-half inch, according to meteorologist Marc Chenard at the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
One of the areas coated with freezing rain during the Thursday morning rush hour was Fort Worth, Texas. Police said icy road surfaces were a factor in a traffic wreck which involved 133 vehicles that began in the express lanes of Interstate-35.
Preliminary information on MCI in Fort Worth. More info will be released later. At least 100 vehicles involved, 5 fatalities, 36 transported to local hospitals. #yourFWFD continues to work the incident and will be on scene for several hours. pic.twitter.com/DUtRJFKSI9
¡ª Fort Worth Fire Department (@FortWorthFire) February 11, 2021
Six people were killed in the pileup and 65 others were treated at hospitals for injuries.
"There were multiple people that were trapped within the confines of their vehicles and requiring use of hydraulic rescue equipment to successfully extricate them," Forth Worth Fire Chief Jim Davis told a news briefing.
Videos from the unfortunate mishap are doing the rounds on social media which show dozens of smashed cars and trucks, literally piled on top of another on a slick roadway under cloudy skies.
A large stretch of the highway was closed in both directions for hours after the crash.
Here at the scene in North Fort Worth of one of the worse disasters I have ever seen in this area. Pray. Pray hard. 100+ of vehicles... @CBSDFW @CBSNews @ABC @WeatherNation @weatherchannel @ReedTimmerAccu @FoxNews @cnnbrk pic.twitter.com/HFpeJoRA2Q
¡ª Jason McLaughlin (@NorthTXWeather) February 11, 2021
The Texas precipitation was part of a system that brought rain to several South-eastern states in the US and modest amounts of snow to West Virginia, Maryland and New Jersey, Chenard said.
A separate storm system will make its presence felt in the mid-Atlantic region on Saturday, he said.
"That may bring potentially significant freezing rain accumulations to portions of Virginia and Maryland," he added.
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