Worst Accident in Ingham County History: 200 car pile up

[ramanth]

Before I left work it was originally stated to be a 50 car pile up.... then on my drive home the number reached 100.

This morning, the highway is again clear (it was closed for about 10 hours), and the number is in the 200 range.

Insane.

Took a little longer to get home but I was in no hurry. Unfortunately my alt. route was the same that people that couldn't take the highway were also taking and they were impatient! A few smaller accidents happened on surface roads but most were fender benders.

They are saying it's the worse accident in the history of Ingham County. As far as I know no one I know was in that mess. Though I'm certain my two cousins were there helping (one's a state trooper and the other is a MSU police officer).

200 car pile up including 80 semis.
37 injured
2 dead.



Lansing State Journal

News 10 coverage

News 6 coverage

[anna_66]

Oh wow, that's so crazy Kim. Glad you didn't know anyone in it or weren't involved in it yourself.

[ramanth]

Yeah, my dad and grandma gave my mom a call since they knew it was my route home. I was at work when the accident happened.

Dad only wanted to know if I knew of an alt. route.

My grandma...I love her..but she's getting to be senile.... was so certain I was involved in the crash that it took my mom some time to get it thru to her that I was at work at the time.

[Cincy'sMom]

I heard about the accident on the radio yesterday afternnon and then saw it on the news last night...but then they were still saying they didn't have numbers, just that it was over 100. Wow!! It is a shame that a few did die and so many were hurt, but with that many cars, it could have been so much worse. I'm glad you were caught in it!

[petslover]

wow.. thats is alot of cars in a pile up.. thats horrible.

[moosmom]

Kimmy,

Glad you were able to take the alternate route. I saw it on the news last night. They said that speed had something to do with it. I guess people were just tooling along when the fog came outta nowhere. On my way to work today they said that they were still cleaning up the debris from the pile-up!

[wolflady]

OMG! That is a ton of cars to pile up! How can something like that happen? I think the most I've witnessed here is 7! I'm glad that you were at work at the time.
**hugs**