The crash on Interstate 81 was captured in videos posted on social media that show passengers lining the road and jumping out of the way as multiple vehicles collide in less than a minute.
AP POTTSVILLE, Pa. — Tractor-trailers and other vehicles slammed into each other during a snow squall on an icy interstate in Pennsylvania on Monday creating a pileup that killed at least three people and injured more than a dozen.
In one video, an out of control tractor-trailer smashed into a large dump truck turning it nearly 180 degrees, another large truck caught fire and spewed black smoke into the air, and an SUV struck a passenger car sending it spinning narrowly past a person standing on the shoulder in snow and fog. Pennsylvania State Police Trooper David Beohm said Monday afternoon that police hadn’t been able to investigate yet because a fire was still burning among a number of crashed cars and trucks.
The National Weather Service had warned of “numerous brief heavy snow squalls with very poor visibility.”
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