Road crews work to clear wrecked vehicles and debris along Interstate 94, Saturday, Jan. 10, 0215, the day after a series of crashes closed the highway between mile markers 88 and 92 in eastern Kalamazoo County, near Galesburg, Mich. The number of vehicles involved in the series of crashes Friday has fluctuated. State police now say there were 193, including dozens of semi-trucks. A trucker from Ottawa, Canada, was killed and about two dozen people were taken to hospitals. (AP Photo/Kalamazoo Gazette-MLive Media Group, Christian Randolph) ALL LOCAL TELEVISION OUT; LOCAL TELEVISION INTERNET OUT
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GALESBURG, Mich. (AP) - State police say a 193-vehicle pileup that closed a stretch of Interstate 94 in Michigan for two days started in eastbound lanes and likely spread to westbound lanes because motorists became distracted by the crashes.
Lt. Dale Hinz (HINS) tells the Kalamazoo Gazette (http://bit.ly/1FMj0t3 ) that investigators have no evidence that cars or trucks crossed the median Friday's crashes in near Galesburg in eastern Kalamazoo County, 150 miles east of Chicago.
An unidentified 57-year-old Canadian truck driver died.
Also Friday, 59-year-old Derrick Albert of Toledo, Ohio, died in a 27-vehicle pileup during a whiteout on U.S. 23 near Milan in southeastern Michigan, and 10-year-old Zaccary West of Hawks died in a two-car crash on a slippery road in Presque Isle County in the northern Lower Peninsula.
Road crews work to clear wrecked vehicles and debris along Interstate 94, Saturday, Jan. 10, 0215, the day after a series of crashes closed the highway between mile markers 88 and 92 in eastern Kalamazoo County, near Galesburg, Mich. The number of vehicles involved in the series of crashes Friday has fluctuated. State police now say there were 193, including dozens of semi-trucks. A trucker from Ottawa, Canada, was killed and about two dozen people were taken to hospitals. (AP Photo/Kalamazoo Gazette-MLive Media Group, Christian Randolph) ALL LOCAL TELEVISION OUT; LOCAL TELEVISION INTERNET OUT
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The charred remains of vehicles and debris sit on Interstate 94, Saturday, Jan. 10, 0215, as road crews work to clear them the day after a series of crashes closed the highway between mile markers 88 and 92 in eastern Kalamazoo County, near Galesburg, Mich. The number of vehicles involved in the series of crashes Friday has fluctuated. State police now say there were 193, including dozens of semi-trucks. A trucker from Ottawa, Canada, was killed and about two dozen people were taken to hospitals. (AP Photo/Kalamazoo Gazette-MLive Media Group, Christian Randolph) ALL LOCAL TELEVISION OUT; LOCAL TELEVISION INTERNET OUT
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Road crews work to clear wrecked vehicles and debris along Interstate 94, Saturday, Jan. 10, 0215, the day after a series of crashes closed the highway between mile markers 88 and 92 in eastern Kalamazoo County, near Galesburg, Mich. The number of vehicles involved in the series of crashes Friday has fluctuated. State police now say there were 193, including dozens of semi-trucks. A trucker from Ottawa, Canada, was killed and about two dozen people were taken to hospitals. (AP Photo/Kalamazoo Gazette-MLive Media Group, Christian Randolph) ALL LOCAL TELEVISION OUT; LOCAL TELEVISION INTERNET OUT
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