Re: 50-100 car crash in your area


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Posted by Joe Cimoch on Thursday, March 06, 2003 at 9:03PM :

In Reply to: Re: 50-100 car crash in your area posted by Terry in Bozrah on Thursday, March 06, 2003 at 3:34PM :

Not me, I was inside all day.

Multiple crashes reported as fast-moving storm slams Mass.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS





ATTLEBORO, Mass. -- Police and emergency officials responded to dozens of crashes and spinoffs in the southeastern portion of the state Thursday, as a fast-moving snow storm wreaked havoc with drivers.

The southbound lanes of Interstate 95 were closed off between the Rhode Island border and Exit 5, near North Attleboro, a nearly 10-mile stretch, after up to 100 vehicles were involved in spin-offs and crashes starting around 11:15 a.m., said state police Sgt. David Paine.

Crashes were also reported on I-95 Northbound, but those lanes remained open, Paine said.

There were reports of multiple injuries, but officials said none appeared life-threatening.

Snow was falling in the area, and up to eight inches were expected to accumulate in the southern part of the state.

(A State Police spokesman told WBZ Radio that school buses are being used to ferry drivers who have had to abandon their cars to an Attleboro church.)

"There doesn't seem to be one specific area where this is taking place it seems to be spread out all across the region," Paine said. Authorities were unsure if an initial accident had been responsible for a "chain reaction" causing the other accidents.

The injured were being taken to area hospitals, while others were being transported to a staging point at the Assembly of God Church in South Attleboro. Cars were being towed to that location so they could be retrieved by their owners, said state police Lt. Paul Maloney.

Authorities were also responding to reports of multiple accidents involving between 30 to 40 vehicles on Route 3 near Kingston and more than 20 vehicles on Route 24 near I-495, Paine said.

The accident happened as a band of heavy, wet snow moved into the area.

"Roads are extremely slick out there with this," said Alan Dunham, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service at Taunton. "The roads had been warm over the last couple days, and it didn't get super cold and the temperature's been falling. That first snow melted, turned to ice, and now you've got snow on top, which makes for very bad conditions."

Up to 8 inches were expected to accumulate in the southern part of the state.

"It appears the storm came in rather suddenly, and may have caught motorists off guard," Paine said.




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