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A semitrailer truck driver and another motorist were killed and six injured in a fiery crash late Monday afternoon on Interstate 94 in western Wisconsin, authorities said.
The seven-vehicle crash happened around 5:38 p.m. on westbound I-94 near Wilson in St. Croix County, the Wisconsin State Patrol said in a news release.
State Patrol troopers, St. Croix County sheriff’s deputies and multiple fire and EMS units responded to the scene, near the Highway 128 overpass. Two motorists were pronounced dead at the scene.
Transportation management video captured by MN Crime shows a white semitrailer truck moving at a high rate of speed and ramming into the back of a passenger vehicle and another semi, causing a trail of flames as all the vehicles disappear from the camera’s view.
On Tuesday, the State Patrol said that the collision occurred in a construction zone, where traffic was slowing, when the first semi crashed into a Ford F-150 pickup truck and the second semi. Four other vehicles also crashed. Multiple fires ignited in the pileup, which led to the temporary closing of the Highway 128 overpass as authorities inspected the bridge for damage.
Killed were the drivers of the first semi, Zdzislaw Obodzinski, 76, of Palatine, Ill., and the Ford F-150, James Michael Shearer, 45, of Hammond, Wis. The other injured motorists, including a 6-year-old Minneapolis girl, were treated and released.
The collision remains under investigation.
Western Wisconsin: I-94 closed after multi-fatal crash and explosion involving at least four vehicles, including two semi-trucks.
WARNING: The video is not suitable for all audiences. pic.twitter.com/JSdjfaV18o— MN CRIME | Police/Fire/EMS (@MN_CRIME) October 24, 2023
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