Crews worked into Tuesday morning to clear the wreckage of more than 150 vehicles involved in a series of crashes the day before on Interstate 55 near New Orleans. The crashes were caused by a 'superfog' of marsh fire smoke and dense fog, and killed at least seven people...
Crews worked into Tuesday morning to clear the wreckage of more than 150 vehicles involved in a series of crashes the day before on Interstate 55 near New Orleans. The crashes were caused by a “superfog” of marsh fire smoke and dense fog, and killed at least seven people and injured another 25.
The crashes began before 9 a.m. Monday and there were several along a one-mile span of the highway, Louisiana State Police Sgt. Kate Stegall said in a news briefing. The highway was expected to remain closed at least until the bridge could be inspected for damage in daylight Tuesday, Stegall said. “It was ‘Boom. Boom.’ All you kept hearing was crashing,” Patterson Reed told The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate.
While 25 people were brought to the hospital, with injuries ranging from minor to critical, others sought medical aid on their own, authorities said. Traffic backed up for miles in both directions on I-55. The lack of visibility also prompted closures of parts of Interstate 10 and the 24-mile Lake Pontchartrain Causeway at times.
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