Posted on 12/23/2022 7:50:15 PM PST by EBH
Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers, turnpike personnel and first responders from several agencies remain on the scene hours after a multi-vehicle crash on the Ohio Turnpike left four dead and many injured Friday afternoon.
As of 9:10 p.m., 15 commercial vehicles are being cleared from the roadway. The crash happened eastbound between State Route 53 and State Route 4 in Sandusky County and eventually stretched into Erie County.
Forty-six vehicles were involved in the crash, according to OSHP Sgt. Ryan Purpura. At least three of the four victims were in different vehicles, and none of their identities have been released.
Officials have gone through the scene and are finishing a second sweep while removing cars, Purpura said.
The exact number of injuries has not yet been determined.
The turnpike remains closed in the area of the crash and officials are uncertain of when it may reopen.
Weather factored into the crash, OSHP confirmed. Everyone involved in the crash has been bussed to a facility to stay warm in the frigid temperatures.
The rescue effort has continued through white-out conditions.
Because the Ohio Turnpike is closed in both directions, eastbound traffic is being diverted off at exit 91 at State Route 53. Westbound traffic is being diverted off at exit 118 at State Route 250.
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This is the worst part of the Thanksgiving and Christmas, I blame the entertainment industry for a lot of this you have to be home for XMAS and Thanksgiving crap. It is been pushed and ingrained in us since silent movies, books, and radio shows going back well over 100 years. How many people have died trying to get to Grandma’s for a reason that could have waited a little longer with common sense?
It is the same old story, Emotion trips common sense almost every time.
“Pedal to the metal”
So well said. Being home for Thanksgiving and Christmas has become a mass cultural fetish stretching back over a century. This would seem completely alien to our ancestors in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Something is wrong when families feel compelled to disperse all over the country. It used to be normal for families to all live in the same county or town. Why disperse? For a sushi restaurant or Thailand food? Big whoop.
This portion of the turnpike runs right along Lake Erie.
When the Lake Erie snow machine kicks in, traveling becomes deadly.
That is usually a pleasant piece of highway to drive. Flat, decent road, usually not too much traffic. Tolls are expensive, rest stops are well-appointed. I think I’ll stay in Phoenix this Christmas.
A lot of these people may not have been traveling very far, and we don’t know all of their circumstances.
It might be better to simply wish the best for them, than to criticize them.
Jobs is part of it. People left here (Pittsburgh PA) in the last few decades as the economy crashed and jobs were sent overseas, along with factories and plants.
too bad the winds were from the southwest last 24 hours... northerners your post would hold some water
Stay at home! It’s going to be a major storm! Black ice is impossible to see, the news readers explained time and time again. Visibility will be zero they intoned.
People have heard the media “cry wolf” many times only for nothing to happen. No one trusts the media anymore. This is the result. However, use your senses and especially your common sense. It’s friggin cold outside. Everything is frozen solid, including the road-ways!
I understand family members will be disappointed, but now many are going to be devastated as they make funeral arrangements instead of cooking that ham or turkey they have thawing in the fridge.
Folks! Stay at home. It’s just two or three more days and then we return to normal winter. Your life and the life of your loved ones is not worth making sure little Canilmorxia has the new I-phone she/he/it has been begging for. Four year-olds get over it and are just as happy to get it a few days late.
Prayers!!!!
I am in Phoenix and though I have momentary sentimental thoughts of Christmas and snow one look at my friends roads back east in these snowstorms cure me of those little moments.
I like not having to wear gloves, wool hats, coats and not having to drive in blizzards, can’t see the road, scary skidding on the road.
The Costco parking lot is treacherous enough for me these days.
We have Zoom and Teams and facetime. No reason for all this rushing around to make it home for Christmas
Sad time to lose someone...
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True on Pittsburgh. It is a poor substitute though (hi tech jobs). It used to be an important place. Once the sixth largest city in the country.
Absolutely. I don't think anyone was criticizing them personally. It was more a commentary on the culture. I certainly wish well upon those poor unfortunate souls in the accident, wish their loved ones the same. I will remember them in my prayers tonight.
It was a white out, like fog. Ice did jot help, but it was the sight distance.
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