Fog, ice cause multiple I-80 pileups

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) -- Nearly 60 vehicles wrecked on a six-mile stretch of Interstate 80 during the morning commute Wednesday in a string of crashes blamed on fog and black ice.

The Utah Highway Patrol reported 14 crashes involving 59 vehicles, at least five of them tractor-trailers.

There were no immediate reports of fatalities, but 11 people were taken to hospitals, at least four of them seriously injured.

One woman in her 40s who was crushed from the chest down when her car was shoved under a burning tractor-trailer, authorities said.

"This was all caused by the weather," said patrol Capt. Alan Workman. "It was the moisture on the roads freezing over."

At one crash site, 17 vehicles had piled up and chairs and other household items had been strung across the interstate by a tipped-over semi-trailer.

Matt Golden, 33, a statistical analyst from Tooele, said he was headed to work on his motorcycle when people on the side of the road tried to wave him down because of the conditions. He had just stopped when he was hit by a minivan.

"It sounded like gunfire going off," he said. "It just exploded. It was just unbelievable. What you're thinking is, 'How can the cars just keep coming and coming? Can't they see this accident?"'

The interstate was temporarily closed for six miles just west of Salt Lake City because of the crashes.

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