14 people injured, taken to hospitals, after 50-vehicle, chain-reaction crash on icy I-80 westbound in Clearfield County.
50-car wreck on Interstate 80 in Pennsylvania forces highway closures.
Westbound I-80 closed after chain-reaction crash involving 50 vehicles.
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A chain-reaction crash involving an estimated 50 vehicles continued to close the westbound lanes of Interstate 80 in western Pennsylvania, though eastbound lanes in the same area have reopened.
The 13-mile eastbound stretch between the Clearfield and Phillipsburg exits in Clearfield County reopened about 10 a.m. The westbound lanes were expected to remain closed until early Wednesday afternoon.
PennDOT spokeswoman Marla Fannin says the westbound lanes were closed due to a 50-vehicle pileup involving several tractor-trailers and one gasoline tanker that crashed near the Clearfield exit.
PennDOT has reduced speeds to 45 mph for Interstate-99 and Interstate-80.
About 50 miles farther east, one westbound lane of I-80 between Lock Haven and Loganton reopened by midmorning, and the other lane was expected to open by 11 a.m. That is in Clinton County.
Rain falling on still-frozen ground caused the icy conditions.
Officials at Clearfield Hospital stated that they had six patients and eight more were en route.
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