Death toll rises to 6 after pileup during snow squall on Pennsylvania highway; 80 vehicles involved

The names of the victims will likely be launched as soon as household notifications have been made, state police mentioned in a information launch Wednesday.

The wreck in Schuylkill County concerned a complete of 80 autos, together with 39 industrial autos and 41 passenger autos.

Twenty-four folks had been taken to 4 completely different hospitals within the space, police mentioned. Different folks with much less critical accidents had been taken by bus to a reuinification middle.

That stretch of Interstate 81 northbound in Foster Township reopened at 12:30 a.m. Wednesday. The southbound lanes had beforehand reopened.

The crash was captured in movies posted on social media that confirmed drivers and passengers lining the snowy street and leaping out of the best way because the cascade of crashes unfolded.

In a single video, an uncontrolled tractor-trailer smashed into a big dump truck turning it practically 180 levels, one other massive truck caught hearth and spewed black smoke into the air, and an SUV struck a passenger automobile sending it spinning narrowly previous an individual standing on the shoulder in snow and fog.

Some autos had been principally burned and others melted onto the freeway.