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Both directions of Highway 364 were shut down after several accidents were reported over a 15-minute period along the Page corridor in Maryland Heights on Friday.
Police stated that there were somewhere between 10 and 15 wrecks due to icy roads. It was not known if anyone was injured.
Both eastbound and westbound lanes were closed near Arena Parkway so crews could put salt down on bridge over Creve Coeur Lake.
Hundreds of accidents occurred across the Baltimore region Friday morning as freezing rain caused icy conditions during the morning commute, according to local emergency officials.
A bulk of the problems were in Anne Arundel County.
One accident involving a vehicle striking a utility pole closed Route 50 in both directions at St. Margaret's Road in Arnold about noon, the State Highway Administration said.
The road reopened about 12:50 p.m. after Comcast crews worked to carry an electrical wire back over the highway, said David Buck, a SHA spokesman.
Icy conditions made for dangerous and deadly driving in New Jersey and parts of New York this morning as at least 2 people died in dozens of accidents.
One person was killed after a motor vehicle crashed into a Philadelphia-bound New Jersey Transit bus in Pine Hill just after 7 a.m.
A New Jersey Transit spokesman says the bus operator told officials the car was approaching the bus from the other side of the road when it spun out of control and struck the front of the bus.
A in-ground pool being drained through a hose turned a road into a sheet of ice on Thursday morning, causing three separate accidents and sending one person to a hospital, police said.
As a result, an employee of a Darien pool company was arrested, according to a news release from a public information officer for the Norwalk police.
Alfredo Bahena-Benitez, 34, of Norwalk was charged with second-degree reckless endangerment.
One person was hospitalized early Tuesday after, while driving on icy road conditions, their vehicle spun out and hit the wall on the Kennedy Expressway (I-90/I-94) in Chicago.
The crash happened about 1:30 a.m. in the northbound lanes of the Kennedy Expressway near Division Street, said a Illinois State Police District Chicago Master Sgt.
The driver, who was the only person in the car, was taken with non-life-threatening injuries to an area hospital, said Collins. The person’s gender and age were not immediately known.
Three people were hurt in an icy early morning crash that shut down North Columbia Boulevard for two hours Monday.
The crash was reported just after 6 a.m. in the 8800 block of North Columbia Boulevard.
Officers arrived and closed the street between North Burgard Street and Chimney Park, said a Portland police Sgt.