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WHIO-TV Video
‘White-out’
conditions lead to 50-vehicle pileup on I-75
By Mandy Gambrell, Andy Sedlak
MIDDLETOWN — Luke Stevens said “it was complete ice” when the car he
was in with three others was hit during a massive pileup on Interstate
75.
An estimated 40 to 50 vehicles crashed into each other near the Ohio
122 exit in Middletown just before noon Monday. No one involved
sustained life-threatening injuries, though multiple people went to
hospitals, officials said.
Stevens, 18, of Van Wert, was at the front of the pileup after the car
he was in spun out of control.
“It was complete ice all over the highway,” he said. Stevens said they
could see vehicles coming at them once the car came to a stop facing
north.
“Cars were coming straight toward us at 60 miles per hour… We ended up
getting hit head-on by a truck,” Stevens said.
“We got hit probably 10 other times by other cars banging into each
other. … We were in a (Buick) Rendezvous. All the airbags deployed,”
Stevens said.
His mother was in the vehicle and was taken to a hospital with a neck
injury, he said.
Officials shut the interstate down at Ohio 123 following the crash, but
began to allow drivers through again around 2:30 p.m.
The largest portion of vehicles involved was south of the Hendrickson
Road overpass.
Ohio State Highway Patrol Sergeant James Russell said snow falling at
the time of the pileup caused “white-out conditions” and possibly
caused the first drivers to lose control and begin the pile-up crash.
It was unclear which vehicles were first.
An investigation is ongoing, but there is a possibility no citations
will be issued, Russell said…
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