41-Car Pileup On Snowy Kentucky Highway

A snowstorm caused a 41-car pileup on a Kentucky highway Monday that sent six people with injuries to hospitals.

Cars were sliding on the slippery interstate road near Dry Ridge and drivers complained that they didn't have much visibility on Monday afternoon when the crippling chain reaction occurred, The Courier-Journal reports.

Witnesses said the first car flipped in the snow and another vehicle soon slammed into it, starting a series of unavoidable smashes that tangled the highway. Cars were spun sideways and came to a halt on the side of the road.

Officials shut Interstate 75 to clear the roadway for several hours. A commuter bus from Northern Kentucky was sent to transport people who's car were badly damaged, according to NKY.com. Police said 23 vehicles were towed from the pileup, according to WDRB..

Some reports said as many eight people were treated for non-life threatening injuries, The Associated Press says.

Comments

[LBarRel]

08:04 PM on 01/08/2012

The closing comment of the announcer, the cause of the accident is under investigation,
hmmmmmm, I think I know the cause, ICE.

[smokeedaclown]

02:00 PM on 01/06/2012

Slow yer roll baby

[Roadrun]

11:15 AM on 01/06/2012

I've driven by stuff like this. It's just a chain reaction and if you are anywhere near it there isn't a thing you can do to avoid being part of it. Truckers have it the worst because even on dry roads they can't just stop that weight suddenly.

[jeffp26]

09:07 AM on 01/06/2012

This is good news for tow-truck operators and body shops in that area. Luckily for those entrepeneurs, some people in KY don't know how to drive in the snow.

[stjoshy]

02:42 AM on 01/05/2012

ambulance chasers everywhere just got a chubby

[Kevin Rayburn]

02:04 AM on 01/05/2012

I-75 in grant county is a SPEED TRAP anyhow, so why even tempt fate much less on a snowy day.

[BrettG88]

08:43 PM on 01/04/2012

It's not as bad as when we had a (near) 200 car pile-up. It was because of dense fog. I remember because I was in school, and I couldn't see the building just across the street!

[BrettG88]

08:44 PM on 01/04/2012

it was on the interstate, in Michigan. To find an article on it, Google search "Lansing Interstate 96 Car Pile Up". The link you want is lansingstatejournal(DOT)com.

[Sorenson]

04:42 PM on 01/04/2012

Southerners just don't know how to deal with and drive in snow. A family member moved down south for a job and they say that this happens ALL THE TIME when they get hit with snow, even when it's just a dusting.

[John Edward Phillips Jr]

04:34 PM on 01/04/2012

OK I live in Tennessee and its pretty much the same thing in Kentucky as it is here. When it snows most of the time instead of it immediately sticking it melts at first then freezes to ice, and if it keeps falling there will of course be snow on top of the ice. So yes it was snowing but there was also ice under that snow. That is why the wrecks are so notoriously bad in the south when it snows, its not just because people don't get as much snow and aren't as used to it, it also has to do with the ice that almost always forms when it snows down here. (It won't be icy if its been below freezing a few days before the snow gets here, as the ground will also be frozen by that point)

[J0E1]

02:15 PM on 01/04/2012

No surprise there. A dusting of snow will send those people into a frenzy.

[GraciePearl2007]

12:01 PM on 01/04/2012

Thats a dangerous stretch of interstate, there, between Dry Ridge and Lexington. If conditions are just right, no one can control their vehicle. Driving it during the blizzard of `97 nearly got me killed. So I can say "been there done that". Now I just stay off of it. Back roads are sometimes safer.

[GraciePearl2007]

11:58 AM on 01/04/2012

thats

[jmoser1973]

07:13 AM on 01/04/2012

why is this in the crime section?

[J0E1]

02:17 PM on 01/04/2012

I found it in 'weird news' which is equally as perplexing.

[bostons badboy]

06:34 AM on 01/04/2012

its funny how someone cuts somebody else off just to be one car ahead... like with on and off ramps too wtf

[isis]

10:22 PM on 01/03/2012

Didn't this happen last year as well?