A commerical truck collided with a tractor-trailer Saturday morning on snow-slick Interstate 95 near the Dale City rest area, sparking a pileup involving at least 52 vehicles, state police said.
Troopers were called to the crash in the southbound lanes at 8:08 a.m., state police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said. She said the first crash between the truck and semi sparked a chain-reaction crash involving a total of 52 vehicles, including several tractor-trailers and commercial trucks.
In all, 10 people were taken to the hospital for treatment of minor injuries, Geller said.
Jean Riescher Westcott, who was driving northbound on I-95 at the time, said the road conditions were “very slippery” and that she saw a minor “slow-speed” accident occur in front of her.
“Most people were going very slowly and driving safely,” Westcott stated on insidenova.com’s Facebook page.
The pileup closed I-95 south at the rest area for more than two hours. Traffic was rerouted onto the HOV lanes.
Troopers also responded to a second multi-vehicle crash in the northbound lanes of I-95 just south of the rest area in Dale City. There were fewer vehicles involved, but Geller did not know exactly how many.
Two travel lanes remained open during the investigation into that crash.
Less than an inch of snow fell in Prince William County this morning, and no more is expected this weekend. Forecasters, however, are watching a potentially potent coastal storm that may impact the region Monday night into Tuesday.
Saturday's crash was one of the biggest along I-95 in the area. During a snowstorm in December 2001, one woman was killed and 14 others injured in a 117-vehicle, chain-reaction wreck in the southbound lanes in North Stafford.
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