Interstate 90 east of Cleveland was reopened early on December 9, after a shutdown of more than 14 hours. Crews untangled a 50-car pileup prompted by heavy, lake-effect snow.
The Lake County sheriff’s office said that more than 20 people were injured in the chain-reaction crash late on December 8, Thursday that stopped the traffic immediately. More than three people had been seriously injured, according to the reports.
The crash initially involved a Greyhound bus and more than a dozen of trucks on the interstate near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border.
Bus passenger Greg Carmichael, who was enroute to Buffalo, told Fox 8 News that a truck hit the bus from behind, causing a domino-effect pileup.
A similar pileup, left three people dead and 11 injured. The accident forced to close the stretches of eastbound and westbound I-96 near Fowlerville, Mich., on December 8. That crash engaged around 30 to 40 cars.
The National Weather Service predicted snow to continue till December 10, Saturday near the Great Lakes as cold Canadian air streams across the relatively warm waters. Snow might be heavy over localized areas and gusty winds are also predicted.
By Prakriti Neogi
