CASCADE TOWNSHIP, Mich. — At least three people were taken to hospitals after being involved in a pile-up involving at least 44 vehicles on westbound I-96, just east of Grand Rapids. The severity of their injuries has not been released at this time.
The crashes happened around 1 p.m. in Cascade Township. The pileup had the stretch of I-96 shutdown near Whitney Avenue to the Alden Nash Avenue exit to Lowell for about three hours.
The exact cause of the crash is not yet known, but one driver involved said it began when a semi-truck started to jackknife.
Authorities are urging drivers to slow down as visibility may be poor on top of roads being snow-covered.
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