Dozens of vehicles collide in massive, fiery pileup on Pennsylvania highway

An uncontrolled tractor-trailer smashed into a big dump truck turning it almost 180 levels, one other giant truck spewed black smoke and orange flames into the air and an SUV struck a passenger automotive sending the sedan spinning, narrowly lacking its driver who stood on the shoulder of Pennsylvania freeway shrouded in snow and fog.

The photographs had been captured in video uploaded to social media on Monday. Officers in northeastern Pennsylvania’s Schuylkill County stated a snow squall swept by way of Minersville round 11 a.m.

In a dramatic video posted to Fb, folks off digicam might be heard yelling because the cascade of crashes unfolds with a number of automobiles colliding in lower than a minute. The one who posted the video didn’t instantly reply to requests looking for extra info.

There have been no quick stories of significant accidents.

The Nationwide Climate Service had warned of “quite a few temporary heavy snow squalls with very poor visibility.”

“The squalls will rapidly cut back the visibility to beneath one-half of a mile and coat the roads with snow,” forecasters stated, urging drivers to get off the highway if doable or activate hazard lights “and steadily decelerate to keep away from a series response vehicular accident.”

Mike Colbert, a forecaster with the Nationwide Climate Service workplace in State School, stated the climate service simply began issuing warnings for snow squalls a number of years in the past, and pileups of the type being reported had been the rationale they started doing so.

“They’re very heavy snow showers the place in case you are driving into them, you may go from partly cloudy or sunny skies into an prompt blizzard in a matter of seconds. That is why they’re so harmful,” he stated.

The (Pottsville) Republican-Herald stories that snowy situations had been hampering the power of firetrucks to ascend Route 901 to achieve the scene.