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Debris and wreckage lie along the highway after a multi-vehicle accident that killed at least nine people, on Interstate 75 near Gainesville, Fla., Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012. Authorities were still trying to determine what caused the pileup on the highway, which had been closed for a time because of the mixture of fog and heavy smoke from a brush fire. At least five cars and six tractor-trailers were involved, and some burst into flame. (AP Photo/Phil Sandlin)

Cause sought for deadly highway pileup

Last updated Monday, January 30, 2012 - 10:39am

GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Authorities in Florida were trying to determine Monday what caused the horrific pileup on Interstate 75 south of Gainesville, where a long line of cars and trucks collided one after another on a dark highway so shrouded in haze and smoke that drivers were blinded.

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At approximately 3:13 a "Conway" Semi truck pulling a single trailer was struck by a red Peter built Semi pulling an empty tanker trailer after it jack knifed and hit the slower moving Conway trailer. Both trucks were either in or near the emergency lane when a "CRST" semi pulling a box trailer lost control and jack knifed sliding into the tanker truck. The driver of the Conway truck is a 34 year old male from SLC, Ut and was transported to the Hospital with facial and head injuries. The 67 year old female driver of the tanker truck along with her 59 year old husband who had been in the sleeper were transported to the hospital. The female by ground ambulance with chest injuries and the male by helicopter with chest and back injuries. (UHP COURTESY PHOTO)

Ice and slick roads trigger I-84 pileup in Box Elder

Scott Schwebke Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, January 20, 2012 - 12:40pm

TREMONTON-- A series of crashes involving three semitrailers, a passenger car and a Box Elder County Sheriff's patrol vehicle closed I-84 near Tremonton for about four hours early this morning.

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Several vehicles lie mangled in the westbound lane of I-10 between I-510 and Michoud Boulevard in eastern New Orleans, Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011. Police said two men died and 59 people were hurt in a predawn pileup of about 40 vehicles that closed heavily trafficked Interstate 10 in eastern New Orleans through rush hour and beyond. (AP Photo/The Times-Picayune, Eliot Kamenitz)

2 dead, 61 hurt in 40-vehicle pileup

Janet McConnaughey The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, December 30, 2011 - 11:11am

NEW ORLEANS -- Two men died and 61 other people were injured Thursday in a pre-dawn pileup involving about 40 cars, vans and other vehicles on a busy interstate that crosses New Orleans, closing the route for hours both ways, police said.

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Arizona Department of Public Safety Officers and other emergency personnel make their way around a 16 car pile up on Interstate 10 between Tucson and Phoenix on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011. A blinding dust storm rolled across the Arizona desert, causing three pileups involving dozens of vehicles on the interstate. A 70-year-old man was killed and at least 15 other people were injured, authorities said. (AP Photo/Darryl Webb)

1 dead, several hurt in Arizona dust storm pileups

Amanda Lee Myers The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, October 5, 2011 - 10:17am

PHOENIX -- A blinding dust storm rolled across the Arizona desert Tuesday, causing three pileups involving dozens of vehicles on a major interstate. One man was killed and at least 15 other people were injured, authorities said.

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