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State Police say at least six people are dead after several vehicles collided on a southwestern New Mexico interstate during a dust storm.
The crash occurred about 5:30 p.m. MDT Thursday in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 10 in Hidalgo County, several miles from the Arizona border.
Police said their "initial investigation has revealed that due to a severe dust storm, several vehicles, both passenger vehicles and Commercial Motor Vehicles (CMV), were involved."
The driver of a tractor-trailer was killed in a single-vehicle wreck on Interstate 70 near Warrenton on Wednesday.
Police say 25-year-old James Lutjen was driving westbound on I-70 near the Warrenton exit around 3 p.m. when his tractor trailer overturned into the median.
Authorities say Lutjen was taken to the hospital, where he later died.
All lanes of westbound I-70 were closed at one point until crews cleared the scene.
A head-on collision in eastern Missouri has left three people dead and a driver hospitalized.
The crash happened at 6:30 a.m. Friday on Missouri 185 near the Washington County town of Sullivan.
The Missouri Highway Patrol says a northbound pickup truck was passing another vehicle on a hill and collided with a southbound passenger car.
Authorities identified those killed as the driver of the car, 25-year-old Casey Edwards, and two passengers, 28-year-old Valerie Lewis and 56-year-old Shari Ryerson. All were residents of Sullivan.