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The westbound lanes of I-96 have reopened at E. Fruitport Road in Muskegon County after it closed due to multiple wrecks. The wrecks were reported by the Michigan Department of Transportation Monday afternoon. It was unknown how many vehicles were involved, and whether anyone was hurt.
A wrong way driver hit several vehicles including two Washington State Patrol cars on Interstate 5 in Tukwila Friday morning. It happened around 4 a.m. A WSP spokesman said an SUV with several people inside was headed the wrong way in the southbound lanes. Troopers say the underage driver is suspected of DUI. Troopers say the SUV may have traveled up to five miles in the wrong direction, hitting at least one other vehicle. "The initial calls came around Boeing Field, so we're talking 5 or 6 miles at least.
One person was killed Thursday afternoon in a multiple-vehicle accident that shut down eastbound I-94 near Michigan City, Indiana police said.
The crash involved seven semi-trailer trucks and several other passenger vehicles, police said. Other injuries were reported, but the extent of the injures is not yet known.
Police did not immediately release details on the cause of the crash at mile marker 36 in LaPorte County, but weather may have played a role.
The expressway was closed east of mile marker 34, police said.
Two people were injured in a wreck Thursday morning in Eaton County when a semi-truck hit a county public transit bus. It happened just before 8:30 a.m. at the intersection of E. Clinton Trail and Flanders Road in Eaton Township, east of Charlotte. An Eatran bus had just stopped at the intersection while headed south on Flanders Road, when it headed into the intersection and into the path of the semi-truck, which was headed east on E. Clinton Trail, according to the Eaton County Sheriff’s Office. There were two passengers, in addition to the driver, in the bus when the wreck occurred.