Chain-Reaction Crash Injures 12 on I-270
By injuheis on February 10, 2009
Slick roads across Maryland resulted in several minor traffic accidents on Thursday, January 8, 2009, and kept Maryland’s law enforcement officials very busy investigating accident scenes and assisting the injured. According to this account in the Washington Post, a chain-reaction accident on Interstate 270 in Montgomery County resulted in a 10-car pileup which temporarily closed the thoroughfare while emergency personnel responded. A dozen people were injured in the I-270 Maryland car accident and sent to nearby hospitals, but only two of them had what hospital officials described as serious but not life-threatening injuries. The other 10 were treated for minor injuries and released.
The chain-reaction accident on I-270 was one of many different accidents caused by occasional patches of “black ice” that developed overnight on area roads. A supervisor in the Prince George’s County police communications office said, “We’re working quite a few . . . they’re just everywhere.” She also reported that a vehicle lost control in icy conditions and struck a utility pole at the intersection of North Keyes and Brandywine Roads—which temporarily closed the road until the scene was cleared. A spokesman for the Fire and Rescue Service said that the I-270 series of collisions began when a vehicle lost control in a HOV lane.
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