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Texas Accident: 6 People Killed in Massive 70 Vehicle Crash

2021-02-11T22:16:21.198Z


At least 6 people died and another 36 were taken to hospitals after an accident in Fort Worth, Texas, due to bad weather, according to authorities. 


Numerous vehicles collided on this part of the road.

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 At least six people died and another 36 were taken to hospitals after an accident in Fort Worth, Texas, due to bad weather that involved dozens of vehicles, authorities said.

As indicated, the massive crash occurred on Interstate 35W in the city, during the morning of this Friday.

The accident is one of several that have been reported Thursday in the Dallas-Fort Worth and Austin, Texas areas under hazardous weather conditions.

Among them, the freezing rain and the accumulation of ice.

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In Fort Worth, the massive Interstate 35W crash was reported around 6 a.m. local time.

The accident involved 75 to 100 vehicles on a stretch approximately 1 mile long, Fort Worth Police Officer Daniel Segura said.

Due to the accident, traffic on the highway was suspended in both directions from I-30 to I-820 on Thursday morning, Fort Worth police posted on Twitter.

"We go vehicle by vehicle to make sure that anyone who is still trapped inside has been released, if possible."

Fort Worth Fire Department spokesman Mike Drivdahl said this Thursday.

Firefighters work on an accident involving dozens of vehicles in Fort Worth, Texas, this Thursday.

Light freezing rain and some sleet conditions were reported in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, area around the time of the crash early Thursday morning.

About a fifth of a centimeter of ice accumulated north of Fort Worth, the National Weather Service reported.

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"Weather conditions are definitely a factor" in the I-35W crash in Texas, Segura said.

Weather conditions in the Texas accident area

Faced with temperatures below -6 degrees Celsius on Thursday morning, first responders took steps to keep people warm.

Including those that were not injured.

"We were able to get a couple of buses from the fire department to place some of the accident victims, who were not patients but could have been due to hypothermia, onto the buses to get them out of the cold environment," said Matt Zavadsky, spokesman. of the MedStar ambulance service.

The area is under a winter weather advisory until 6 p.m. local time, due to the accumulation of ice.

This would result in "very slippery sidewalks, roads and bridges," the weather service warned.

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"Lots of traffic accidents this morning, especially at the DFW Metroplex," the Fort Worth meteorological office said in a tweet.

«These events are very dangerous because the ice is irregular.

We cannot emphasize enough that road conditions can go from good to dangerous in just a few blocks, ”he added.

In Austin, about 290 kilometers south of Fort Worth, five people were taken to hospitals in a crash involving 26 vehicles on State Highway 45 on Thursday, the Austin County Department of Emergency Medical Services said. Travis.

Ice was reported on an overpass where the accident occurred, Darren Noak, a captain with the department, told CNN.

CNN's Juliana Battaglia contributed to this report.

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Source: cnnespanol

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