Massive crash closed I-196 most of Monday. What happened

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A minimum of 100 autos, together with a number of tractor-trailers, have been concerned in a crash Monday, Jan. 19, on Interstate 196 between Zeeland and Hudsonville throughout blinding snow showers that resulted in non-life-threatening accidents.

“There have been 9 folks injured. I feel the worst I am listening to is a few damaged bones. All in all, it was nothing in need of a miracle that nobody was harm worse,” Ottawa County Sheriff Eric DeBoer stated Tuesday morning, Jan. 20, earlier than the Ottawa County Finance and Administration assembly. “Whereas we do not need to see a pile-up of 100 automobiles, it was successful when it comes to the way in which all of it went down.”

The chain response crash began round 10:30 am no fatalities have since been reported, based on USA TODAY.

“An ideal outpouring of assist from the group at giant and loads of good work finished by the emergency administration group and our freeway patrol and our companions within the hearth, towing corporations and ambulances,” DeBoer added.

Monday at 6 p.m., I-196 reopened in each instructions, officers stated in a Fb put up.

Police have been dispatched after 10:15 a.m. Monday when intense circumstances induced a 10-mile stretch of autos, together with two dozen vans, to crash on and off the Zeeland-Hudsonville street close to sixty fourth Avenue in Zeeland Township. Each eastbound and westbound visitors was closed for a lot of the day as tow vans cleared the autos.

Along with a number of first responders, Hudsonville Public Faculties and MAX Transit used their buses to move stranded motorists to Hudsonville Excessive Faculty, based on the Facebook post from the Ottawa County Sheriff on January 19.

As of Tuesday, January 20, arctic temperatures and blowing snow remained within the forecast for your entire nation. Climate officers have a winter weather advice for Southeast Michigan, and a advice in cold weather for northern Michigan and the Higher Peninsula.

See the aftermath of the huge buildup in Michigan

Footage captured by a truck driver reveals broken autos idling on the street after an enormous interstate collision involving greater than 100 autos in Ottawa County, Michigan.

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