Fiery Tanker Crash, Explosion Shuts Down I-94 Near Detroit-Dearborn Border
Smoke could be seen billowing from the scene of a fiery crash and explosion involving a tanker truck.
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Smoke could be seen billowing from the scene of a fiery crash and explosion involving a tanker truck.
Emergency repairs are being made to a busy freeway interchange in Detroit.
Lt. Mike Shaw says that several people were in a car traveling along westbound I-94 near Mt. Elliott St. in Detroit around 1:30 a.m. Monday morning when shots rang out and the driver was struck.
Police pursued the driver as he went onto the freeway and continued to flee at 90 MPH before he rear-ended a mini-van.
Witnesses said that the vehicle lost control and overturned several times around 11 a.m. before landing on a fence at the bottom of a snowy embankment.
At around 6:30 a.m., a pick up truck hit the rear of the DDOT bus which was stopped in the left lane on I-94 near Cadieux. Moments later, a van struck both the bus and the truck.
State police say they have reconstructed last month's massive pileup on I-94 in southwestern Michigan and are determining whether anybody will face criminal charges.
Authorities say a Warren man was killed in a rollover crash on I-94 in Macomb County that might have been fueled by alcohol.
Police say the driver lost control of his semi-truck and hit the median wall, causing the rig to roll over.
"People were driving too fast and following too closely on an icy freeway during a white-out."
Police are reviewing phone videos on social media that were shot by drivers and show a steady progression of vehicles sliding into to the semis and cars already stopped in the road.
After a devastating fatal 193 car pileup on Friday, I-94 between Battle Creek and Kalamazoo has reopened for traffic in both directions.
Equipment problems related to cold weather were affecting the acid cleanup, said First Lt. James Coleman of the Michigan State Police.
State police now say there were 193 vehicles involved, including dozens of semis.
Police say dozens of semi-trucks were involved, including one carrying fireworks, which ignited
Police say a man who died in a crash along I-94 in Detroit had been shot, and may have been involved in a road rage incident or another kind of dispute.
The driver was taken to St. John Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
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Police say it was a head-on crash involving two vehicles.
Westbound I-94 was closed for about two hours in St. Clair County Monday morning after a semi truck hit a pedestrian.
An autopsy is scheduled for a man who was found dead in a car Saturday morning on the shoulder of eastbound I-94 near Oakwood Ave.
"I got up, came out on my porch and I looked and saw like 15 police cars."
Motorists traveling on I-94 on Detroit's east side got more of an amusement park ride than a smooth ride to work.
Traffic on Woodward Avenue over I-94 in Detroit has been reduced to three lanes as construction continues on the M-1 rail project.
I-94 will be closed between I-75 and M-10, beginning Friday night.
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