Parts of I-94 reopen in Indiana after tanker overturns amid slick conditions

PORTER COUNTY, Ind. (WLS) — Components of Interstate 94 in Indiana reopened Saturday after being closed for at the least 10 hours resulting from a crash on Friday.

On Friday, Indiana State Police mentioned motorists ought to keep away from eastbound I-94 towards Michigan and into Michigan, after a tanker carrying hazardous materials rolled over resulting from slick street situations. The crash occurred on the 24.2 mile marker, or the Burns Harbor exit, in Porter.

Sodium Hydroxide needed to be faraway from the automobile earlier than it might be moved, ISP mentioned.

I-94 was additionally closed on Friday at exit 4 in Niles, Michigan resulting from quite a few crashes and climate, police mentioned.

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“Our concern in Indiana is that if visitors backs up into Indiana, which might end in motorists turning into stranded in arctic temperatures, creating a particularly harmful scenario for everybody,” ISP mentioned.

It isn’t clear when I-94 in Michigan would possibly reopen.

Troopers had been additionally engaged on crashes on Interstate 65 and I-94. White-out situations introduced visitors to a standstill on I-65 close to Lowell. Many roads, in addition to on and off ramps, stay snow-covered.

A number of troopers had been additionally hit whereas working crash scenes Friday, police mentioned.

Regardless of an in a single day effort of treating roads and clearing out snow from space expressways, extraordinarily low temperatures after a winter snow storm are precipitated slick roads throughout the Chicago space.

“They’re unhealthy, actually unhealthy,” Lake County, Indiana resident Jim Fleeger mentioned. “Simply the street situations are unhealthy; 65’s closed down south of right here. And, then the again roads right here, north and south roads, are just about drifted over.”

Ronald Dumas was on the roads when he handed one other semi crash, this one on I-65 south close to the Lowell exit.

“I hate that occurred south of right here, you realize the truck jack-knifed,” Dumas mentioned. “It is an individual’s life concerned, you realize? You possibly can change freight. You possibly can’t change an individual.”

Some truck drivers deliberate to proceed on the roads, as this winter’s wrath retains a gradual grip on northwest Indiana.

“Nicely, I simply acquired to drag again over and fall asleep and see what time they are going to cease. Get within the horse lane, man. My firm does fairly good. They gave me – I haven’t got to ship it till Monday, so I am simply attempting to make it house for Christmas,” Kenndrick Davis mentioned.

Indiana State Police had not reported any accidents as of Friday night.

The video within the participant above is from a earlier report.

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