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Ohio Turnpike officials are stopping drivers from getting on the toll road at several interchanges after a series of pileups shut it down. The State Highway Patrol says two people died and a trooper was seriously injured in snowy crashes involving at least 50 vehicles on the turnpike. A turnpike spokesman says they hope to open one eastbound lane of traffic around 6 p.m. Pileups stretched across a 2-mile section in the eastbound lanes of the toll road Wednesday afternoon between Toledo and Cleveland. Turnpike spokesman Adam Greenslade says traffic there is backed up just over seven miles.