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Crashes involving a semi-truck hauling two trailers and other vehicles have prompted state police to close Interstate 70 in both directions in southwestern Pennsylvania.
The crash happened Tuesday morning near the exit for Eighty Four and state Route 519 in Washington County. That's about 25 miles inside Pennsylvania, east of the West Virginia border.
Four firefighters and a Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper responding to an accident were injured when a another vehicle cross the median on Interstate 70 Saturday afternoon.
According to a spokesperson with the Missouri Highway Patrol, the vehicle was headed eastbound on Interstate 70 going too fast for the road conditions when it ran off the highway, over the median cable and into the emergency crews. The accident happened near mile marker 77 in Saline County, near Marshall.
A tanker truck driver says his brakes failed before he crashed into a concrete barrier and rolled into the westbound lanes of Interstate 70 in western Pennsylvania, where another tanker coming in the opposite direction also crashed trying to avoid the first truck.
The first driver, who is identified only as being from Erie, told a reporter his brakes failed on a ramp leading from Route 51 to the interstate about 1:30 a.m. Tuesday.
An Illinois man was killed late Thursday when the car he was driving was struck by a semi tractor on I-70 about three miles west of the Cambridge City exit.
Indiana State Police and emergency crews were at the scene several hours investigating the crash and removing vehicles.
Investigators say 22-year-old Boota Singh of Sacramento, Calif. was driving his semi westbound in the right lane when the driver of a car lost control.
Moderate snow was falling at the time and road conditions were snow covered and slick.
A State Highway Patrol trooper and a driver she was helping after an accident were struck Tuesday when another vehicle lost control on an icy Ohio highway and pushed a cable barrier into them and their vehicles.
The crash happened shortly after midnight along Interstate 70 near Springfield, about 45 miles west of Columbus, as the trooper assisted a 56-year-old Huber Heights woman who had lost control of her vehicle earlier and ended up in the median, the patrol said.
One man is dead following a one-vehicle crash on westbound I-70 this morning on the Eastside, but police suspect a medical condition might be the cause of both the crash and the man’s death.
The crash occurred before 5:45 a.m. today, an Indiana State Police trooper said, east of Emerson Avenue.
The truck crashed into the interstate’s inside retaining wall, police said.
Police at 7:45 a.m. were not yet releasing the man’s identity.