Now THATS a pile up!

[no-sweat]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,149819,00.html

PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. ? A snow squall caused a string of highway pileups involving as many as 90 vehicles Tuesday, killing one person and injuring at least 34 others, police said.

Rescue crews needed hours to untangle and clear what Fire Chief Dave Peterson described as "knots" of wreckage.

Two victims were hospitalized in critical condition.

A six-mile section of U.S. 131 (search) just north of Grand Rapids (search) was closed and did not reopen until Tuesday afternoon. The wreckage stretched for a half-mile and included a tractor-trailer that was torn in two and a van that was crushed between two tractor-trailers.

Jan Johnson, who lives nearby, said: "I heard the very first crash ? a big boom ? then it just continued for a few minutes, right after the other."

Police said the snowstorm created near-whiteout conditions and made the road surface slippery.

[amr_01]

saw this on the news earlier, luckily not more people were killed.

[Denis W. Veteran]

Wow :blink:

I think the insurance companies aren't gonna be too happy about this :devil:

[webeagle12]

one word: DAMN!!!! :huh:

[spiegel]

well that many cars, im surprised one person died true the death of one human being is as shocking as 100 deaths but wow, 1 dead :blink:

[Joseph B]

Holy crap... I remember my first car crash, compared to that pile-up... Yeah. Ow.

[jtchange]

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i live just south of grand rapids in Kentwood....i heard about this too...it's crazy

Edited March 9, 2005 by gameguy

[amitsaraf32]

Ouch. Poor chappies :(

[Rushnak]

speechless.

[ember]

holy cow, that sucks :pinch:

[emo]

yesterday on the garden state parkway, there were over 120+ accidents and counting.

[spiegel]

yesterday on the garden state parkway, there were over 120+ accidents and counting.

585590906[/snapback]

theres always accidents on the parkway! :D

the cops did close down rt-21.....******s

[Oggy_666]

that is really bad

[Solth]

I live really close to that so I went almost though that all, also I work at the hospital where most of the people were sent to, it was really nasty.

[qdave]

insane! its good that no more then 1 have died.

[BroChaos Veteran]

i lived in kalamazoo my whole life, pretty close to that. i moved out to cali now though, no more snow unless i drive up. hope everyone is driving safe, i heard the snow storm is pretty bad on the east coast.

[Gowcra]

:cry: poor people!

[webeagle12]

that snowstorm came through my town, visibility = about 5-6 cars infront, roads= very bad and very slippery :wacko:

[NeoXY]

wow....:omg:....that's pretty bad....jezz

[Koolslacker]

Damn