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Posted: 6:13 PM Feb 5, 2010
Hundreds of Weather-Related Crashes Keeping VSP Busy
SALEM, Va. (AP) Virginia State Police is reporting more than 200 traffic accidents across the Commonwealth due to a major winter storm that's made highways slick with snow and ice.
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Virginia State Police is reporting more than 200 traffic accidents across the Commonwealth due to a major winter storm that's made highways slick with snow and ice.
Troopers responded to 261 traffic accidents between 12:01 a.m. and 1 p.m. Friday. The accidents include the deaths of a father and son who were hit by a tractor trailer while trying to help a driver who wrecked in snow on Interstate 81.
State police said troopers responded to 240 disabled vehicles during the same period.
Portions of Interstate 77 between mile marker one and mile marker 41 in Carroll County were closed Friday morning because of several accidents involving tractor-trailers. The interstate reopened after crews removed the wreckage.
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I agree with one of the comments you read from Facebook about imposing fines on non-emergency facilities that stay open, forcing employees to work when they should not be driving to and from work during weather like this. The officials tell us to stay off the streets, but the money-grubbing businesses are telling people they have to come to work. Where does the madness end and sensibility begin? Something needs to be done about these employers who harass, bully and intimidate their employees and threaten their jobs because they don't like traveling in this kind of weather!
