• Ohio town mourns 6 teens killed in mysterious car crash

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    Mindy Morgan reads a note at the memorial where six teens were killed in a car crash on Park Ave. in Warren, Ohio on March 10.

    By Andrew Rafferty, Staff Writer, NBC News

    An Ohio town was in mourning on Sunday after a single-car crash took the lives of six teenagers, the deadliest car accident the Buckeye State has seen in three years.

    Around 7 a.m. local time, a sport utility vehicle carrying eight people in Warren, Ohio veered to the left, hit a guardrail and flew out of control, according to Ohio State Highway Patrol.  The car came to rest in a pond, and only two of the teens were able to escape and find help.

    A joyride in northeast Ohio ended tragically after an SUV slammed into a guard rail and flipped into a swamp, killing six teens inside. Two others were injured in the crash early Sunday morning.

    Killed in the crash were 19-year-old Alexis Cayson, 14-year-old Andrique Bennett, 17-year-old Brandon Murray, and 15-year-olds Kirklan Behner, Daylan Ray, and Ramone White.

    All the victims were from Warren, Ohio, about 60 miles east of Cleveland.

    Brian Henry, 18, and Asher Lewis, 15, survived and were taken to a local hospital and later released.

    Authorities say the Honda Passport was traveling at "highway speeds" when the driver hit the guard rail on a street where the speed limit is 35 mph. Some of the occupants were wearing seat belts, though it is unclear how many. The SUV only has five seats.

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    A Honda Passport that crashed into a guardrail and flipped over into a swampy pond Sunday morning in Warren, Ohio, killing six teenagers.

    The teens were all friends, but investigators say it is still unclear where they were coming from or going to. At a press conference Sunday night, State Highway Patrol Lt. Brian Holt said, “none of the occupants of the vehicle had expressed permission to be in possession of the vehicle.” The car's owner lives in nearby Youngstown, Ohio, though the automobile had not been reported stolen. Police said it is unclear at this time what the connection is between the vehicle owner and the teens.

    Police also declined to speculate on drug use or alcohol pending the results of a toxicology report.

    As news spread of crash, mourners throughout the community visited the scene of the accident to grieve. Along with the grief came questions of how it happened and why the victims were out at the early hour.

    A local school where several of the teens attended was opened to the community to come for counseling. Counselors will be on hand Monday as well as students return from the weekend.

    “It’s going to be a rough week, a rough rest of the school year,” said Michael Notar, Warren school superintendent. 

     

  • 'They really were one soul': Funeral held for crash couple whose unborn baby survived

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    A pregnant woman and her husband en route to a hospital were killed in a hit-and-run car crash in Brooklyn early Sunday, but the baby survived.

    Nachman and Raizy Glauber, both 21, were driving in a livery cab when a gray BMW sedan crashed into the side of the cab at the intersection of Wilson Street and Kent Avenue in Williamsburg, police said.

    A male driver and another passenger in the BMW then fled the scene of the accident on foot.

    Raizy Glauber was thrown from the car and her body landed under a parked tractor-trailer, said witnesses who came to the scene after the crash. Nachman Glauber was pinned in the car, and emergency workers had to cut off the roof to get him out, witnesses said.

    Nachman Glauber was pronounced dead at Beth Israel Hospital, while his wife died at Bellevue, police said. The couple's premature son was delivered at the hospital and was in serious condition.

    "The baby has no worry at all about being well raised and well taken care of," said community activist Isaac Abraham, a neighbor of Raizy Glauber's parents.

    "There's going to be such community outreach from psychological to moral to financial assistance, that's the least worry, the child should just make it."

    Police are continuing to search for the occupants of the BMW. No arrests have been made yet.

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    The driver of the livery cab was also taken Beth Israel Hospital, where he is listed in stable condition, police said.

    On Saturday, Raizy Glauber "was not feeling well, so they decided to go" to the hospital, said Sara Glauber, Nachman Glauber's cousin.

    Hundreds gathered in Williamsburg Sunday afternoon at a funeral for the Glaubers, both Orthodox Jews. Jewish law calls for burial of the dead as soon as possible.

    The Glaubers were married about a year ago and had begun a life together in Williamsburg, where Raizy Glauber grew up in a prominent rabbinical family, Sara Glauber said.

    Raised north of New York City in Monsey, N.Y., and part of a family that founded a line of clothing for Orthodox Jews, Nachman Glauber was studying at a rabbinical college nearby, said his cousin.

    "You don't meet anyone better than him," she said. "He was always doing favors for everyone."

    She added that, of him and his bride, "if one had to go, the other had to go too because they really were one soul."

    During the funeral, the sound of wailing filled the air as two coffins covered in black velvet with a silver trim were carried from a vehicle.

    A succession of men and women delivered eulogies in Yiddish, sobbing as they spoke into a microphone about the young couple. "I will never forget you, my daughter!'' said Yitzchok Silberstein, Raizy Glauber's father.

    Afterward, the cars carrying the bodies left and headed to Monsey, where another service was planned in Nachman Glauber's hometown.

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  • Expectant parents killed in NYC crash; baby born at scene

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    First responders work at the scene shortly after a car accident in Brooklyn, New York, took the lives of an expectant couple Sunday, March 3, 2013.

     

    By Alexander Smith, BreakingNews.com, and Tracy Connor, NBC News

    A young couple en route to a hospital to have their first child was killed in a car crash in New York City early Sunday but the baby was born at the scene and survived.


    Nathan and Raizy Glauber, both 21 and Orthodox Jews, were using a car service to go to the hospital when another vehicle crashed into the side of theirs at an intersection in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, Hasidic community activist and family friend Isaac Abraham said.

    Nathan Glauber was pronounced dead at Beth Israel Hospital, while his wife died at Bellevue, the New York Post and The Associated Press reported.

    Pictures of the scene were posted on Vos Iz Neias, a news site that covers the Jewish community.

    The couple's son was delivered at the scene and was taken to a hospital in serious condition, said Abraham, who is also a neighbor of Raizy Glauber's parents and lives two blocks from the scene of the crash.

    Abraham said: "The child is in a serious condition in Beth Israel Hospital, in Manhattan. Now we just pray with the child that all medical efforts keep him alive."

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    He added: "I know Raizy because I saw her grow up from a child."

    The driver of the vehicle that hit the couple's car fled, police told the AP. No arrests have yet been made.

    The Post reported that a BMW was involved and that it was the driver of the BMW who fled the scene, at the intersection of Kent Avenue and Wilson Street.

    The condition of the car service's driver is unclear, police said, according to the AP.

    Alastair Jamieson,  NBC News, and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

    This story was originally published on Sun Mar 3, 2013 6:06 AM EST

  • 6 in single extended family killed in Kentucky highway crash

    By Bruce Schreiner, The Associated Press

    Kentucky State Police were investigating whether distracted driving caused a tractor-trailer to plow into an SUV carrying eight people on Saturday, killing six in an extended family and possibly triggering a serious crash on the opposite side of the highway.

    The truck driver is "telling us that he saw the vehicle that was in front of him and he hit the brakes and he didn't hit them in time," Master Trooper Norman Chaffins said. " ... There was a reason for that and we're trying to figure out what the reason was."

    The late-morning crash was followed 15 minutes later by a multi-vehicle crash on the opposite side of Interstate 65 that injured three people. The site was just 15 miles from where 11 people died in 2010 when a tractor-trailer crossed the median and hit a van carrying a Mennonite family. Ten people in the van were killed along with the truck driver and the National Transportation Safety Board determined the truck driver was distracted by his cell phone.


    Chaffins said despite snow flurries, weather was not a factor in Saturday's crashes. He said police were also looking into the truck driver's logs and had taken blood tests.

    The six killed were identified as members of an extended family from Marion, Wis.

    They were identified as James Gollnow, 62, and his wife, Barbara Gollnow, 62; Marion Champnise, 92, a friend; Sarina Gollnow, 18, relationship unknown; and foster children Gabriel Zumig, 10, and Soledad Smith, 8.

     

    The two survivors were also foster children. Police identified them as Hope Hoth, 15, who was transported to a hospital in Lexington with burns and a broken spine; and Aidian Ejnik, 12, who was taken to Kosair Children's Hospital in Louisville with cuts to the back of his head.

    Chaffins described both of the children's injuries as non-life-threatening.

    The two crashes shut down the busy stretch of highway for about five hours. The first happened at 11:13 a.m. ET on northbound I-65 south of Elizabethtown. In the second crash, four vehicles collided at the same location on the southbound side.

    Chaffins said in the first crash, a 1999 Ford Expedition was hit from behind and then hit the car in front of it, but the driver of that vehicle had only minor injuries. He did not know where the Expedition was headed.

    The Expedition was "totally engulfed in flames. It was totally destroyed by the fire," he said, adding, "It's just a charred mess."

    He said one eyewitness told police two people emerged from the blaze and one appeared to be on fire.

    The driver of the tractor-trailer was not injured and was cooperating with police, Chaffins said. "He's obviously pretty torn up about everything."

    The southbound crash involved a tractor-trailor and three other vehicles. Police were investigating whether rubbernecking was the cause.

    "That's what we're suspecting, that people were looking at the crash that happened on the other side and became distracted and caused a chain-reaction crash," he said.

    Those injured in the second crash were taken to hospitals but were not identified.

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  • Survivors say bus weaved in and out of traffic before deadly crash

    Several people were killed and dozens more injured on Sunday when a tour bus collided with a truck and a second vehicle on a mountain road east of Los Angeles.

    By Andrew Mach, Staff Writer, NBC News

    In the aftermath of the tour bus collision near Los Angeles that left at least seven people dead and another 38 injured, investigators and witnesses were still piecing together the grim details on Monday.


    The collision, which occurred at about 6:30 p.m. PST Sunday on Highway 38 near Mentone, Calif., about 80 miles east of Los Angeles, involved the tour bus carrying 39 passengers, a truck and a sedan, officers with the California Highway Patrol said.

    “It happened so fast, I don’t know how it all happened,” one passenger told the San Bernadino Sun. “This was supposed to be a good day out with my companions and then this happened.”

    A victim’s family member identified many of the passengers from Tijuana, Mexico, who were returning from a skiing and snowboarding trip at the Big Bear Mountain Resort when the bus began swerving.

    Surviving passengers aboard the bus said they heard noises they thought were the breaks and smelled something burning and then watched in horror as the bus weaved in and out of traffic for up to three minutes, trying to avoid cars, NBCLosAngeles.com reported.

    “I saw a headlight in my rear-view mirror,” Betty Harvey, a witness, told NBCLosAngeles.com. “I moved over and he went flying past. He was swerving all the way down.”

    The bus hit a car, then flipped, flinging some passengers 20 feet away from the bus. There was significant damage to the passenger's side of the bus, Ronald Walls, a battalion chief at the San Bernardino County Fire Department, said.

    Passengers said the bus driver was stuck under a rock, before he was rescued. CHP Officer Mario Lopez said the driver told investigators the bus suffered brake problems as it headed down the mountain.

    Firefighters worked to extricate people from the bus and emergency crews set up triage areas in a "mass casualty" situation, Eric Sherwin, with the San Bernardino County Fire Department told NBCLosAngeles.com

    California Department of Transportation spokeswoman Michelle Profant said the scene after the crash was shocking. 

    "It's really a mess up there with body parts," Profant told The Associated Press. 

    Terri Kasinga of the California Department of Transportation described the crash as the worst she's seen in 23 years working for the agency, NBCLosAngeles.com reported.

    Nick Ut / Associated Press

    San Bernardino investigators examine wreckage on Feb. 4 after a tour bus accident in the Southern California mountains near San Bernardino. The accident killed at least 8 people on Sunday.

    CHP officials said there was concern the death toll could rise because some passengers sustained life-threatening injuries. Exact ages of the injured and dead were not immediately known.

    The CHP was still on the scene Monday, attempting to determine what led to the deadly crash.

    “Speed was probably a factor,” CHP Officer Mario Lopez told NBCLosAngeles.com. “We do not know if there was a mechanical failure or driver error. That’s what investigators at the scene are going to determine.”

    Lopez said the bus is owned by Scapadas Magicas LLC, which is based in National City, Calif., and is also listed in Tijuana, Mexico.

    The National Transportation Safety Board said Monday they sent a team to investigate the crash.

  • Police: For ER getaway, man tries to use ambulance, pair of horses, stolen cars

    Alabama police say a 24-year-old ER patient stole an ambulance, tried to saddle two horses and stole a second vehicle in a bizarre escape attempt before re-admitting himself back into the hospital. WAFF's Nick Lough reports.

    By Elizabeth Chuck, Staff Writer, NBC News

    Attempting a brazen getaway after a car crash via an ambulance, a pair of horses and a stolen SUV when you're drunk may not be the best idea. At least it wasn't for an Alabama man who attempted to do exactly that over the weekend, according to police.


    The series of transportation failures began last Friday, when 24-year-old Matthew Todd of Boaz, Ala., got into a car accident, reported NBC affiliate WAFF-TV in Alabama. Investigators told WAFF that Todd was intoxicated at the time of the crash, which happened in Sardis City, a few miles from Boaz, in the northeastern part of the state.

    It's unclear whether there were other drivers involved and what kind of injuries Todd suffered from the crash. He was taken by ambulance to the nearest emergency room at Marshall Medical Center South in Boaz and admitted as a patient, but Todd had no interest in sticking around: Authorities said shortly after he got there, he persuaded hospital staff to let him go outside for a smoke break.

    Once outside, instead of grabbing a cigarette, Todd hopped into an ambulance that was running, according to WAFF.

    "He got the ambulance stuck at the end of Bernard Street and after that, he entered a barn and a connected pasture and tried to saddle two horses," Boaz Police Chief Todd Adams told WAFF.

    The attempted equestrian escape was just as doomed as the ambulance he had to abandon, so Todd stole an SUV instead, WAFF reported. He crashed the SUV, totaling it, according to Boaz police; Todd allegedly then found a second SUV to steal, which finally ended up being his ticket back to his house, WAFF reported.

    Todd spent the night at home, and the following day, returned to the emergency room seeking treatment for the injuries he suffered from the initial car accident.

    "That's when the ER staff and medics called us, and said, 'That's the guy that stole our ambulance,'" Adams told WAFF. The ambulance was found Saturday morning where Todd had left it; Todd was booked into Marshall County Jail on $7,500 bail on two charges of auto theft and one count of burglary, WAFF reported.

    Charges are also pending against him for the initial crash that put him in the emergency room, according to WAFF. 

    It's not known whether Todd has a history of criminal activity. 

  • 4 firefighters hurt in crash with tractor trailer and SUV

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    A serious crash on the I-495 Beltway, early Wednesday.

    By Alastair Jamieson, Staff writer, NBC News

    Seven people, including four firefighters, were seriously hurt in a major crash that all but blocked the Beltway early Wednesday outside Washington, D.C.


    A fire truck was responding to an accident on southbound I-495/I-95 at about 3 a.m. ET when it was struck by another vehicle, said Corporal Clinton Copeland of the Prince George’s County Police Department in Maryland.

    “This is going to be a major, major problem for drivers this morning,” he said, adding that only one lane on either side of the scene was open to traffic as at 5:30 a.m. ET.

    The fire truck was left on its side following the crash, according to a picture taken by a passerby and shared on Twitter by NBC4's Melissa Mollet.

    A tractor trailer and an SUV were the other vehicles involved in the crash, NBCWashington.com reported.

    It said the tractor trailer rear-ended the fire truck, citing Prince George’s County Fire Chief Marc Bashoor.

    The accident involving the fire truck happened on the inner loop of the Beltway near the eastbound exit for the John Hanson Highway.

  • 9 killed, at least 20 injured when charter bus plunges off icy Oregon highway

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    LA GRANDE, Ore. -- Nine people were killed and at least 20 others hospitalized on Sunday after a tour bus veered out of control on an icy stretch of freeway in eastern Oregon and rolled nearly 200 feet down an embankment, state police said.


    State police reported that the driver apparently lost control of the charter bus around 10:30 a.m. on the snow- and ice-covered lanes of Interstate 84 and crashed through a guardrail before plunging down an embankment. The Oregonian newspaper reported that the bus  tumbled nearly 200 feet before coming to a halt.

    Oregon State Police Lt. Gregg Hastings told the newspaper that about 40 passengers were on the bus at the time of the crash, which occurred near milepost 227 on Interstate 84 near Deadman Pass, according to the East Oregonian newspaper. 

    Hastings told the East Oregonian that he learned the bus was returning to Las Vegas from British Columbia, Canada.   

    Rescue workers used ropes to help retrieve the injured from the scene. Westbound lanes of I-84 were closed.

    The Oregonian said 18 passengers were transported to St. Anthony's Hospital in Pendleton, about 13 miles northwest of the crash scene. Hospital spokesman Larry Blanc would not say if or how many passengers sustained life-threatening injuries, it said.

    Three fixed-wing aircraft also were on standby at the Pendleton airport if needed to transport injured to hospitals elsewhere, state police said.

    Authorities did not immediately identify the operator of the charter bus.

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    Rescue personnel respond to the scene of a charter bus crash on I-84, east of Pendleton, Ore. in this photo released on Dec. 30. Police said the bus may have gone out of control on the highway before crashing through a guardrail and down an embankment.

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  • Wrong-way minivan collision on Ohio highway kills 4

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    A minivan going the wrong way on a southwestern Ohio highway struck another minivan head-on early Sunday, killing four people and critically injuring two others, authorities said.


    The first minivan was carrying a family leaving a Christmas party, and the vehicle it struck was carrying a family going to see grandparents for the holidays, The Associated Press reported.

    The accident happened about 2:30 a.m. on Interstate 75 near milepost 35 in Warren County, near the town of Franklin.

    In a news release, Ohio State Patrol Lt. Anne Ralston said a 1997 Dodge minivan was traveling south in the northbound lanes on I-75 when it struck a 2000 Chrysler minivan.

    The driver of the Dodge minivan, Joshua Nkansah, 40, of Fairfield, Ohio, and his 7-year-old son, David Nkansah, died at the scene, Ralston said. A 4-year-old boy in the van was transported to a hospital in Middletown and then flown to Children’s Hospital in Cincinnati with what troopers said were life-threatening injuries.

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    The driver of the Chrysler minivan, Michele Barhorst, 31, of Madisonville, Tenn., also died at the scene. Her husband, Scott Barhorst, 37, was flown to a hospital in Cincinnati where he died from his injuries, troopers said. A 9-year-old in the van was flown to Dayton Children's Hospital with life-threatening injuries. Two other children, ages 8 and 11, were being treated at a Middletown hospital for serious injuries, and an 18-year-old was being treated there for minor injuries, the patrol said.

    Alcohol was a suspected factor in the crash, Ralston said.

    Ohio State Patrol Sgt. Stan Jordan told the AP that investigators smelled liquor in the minivan that was going the wrong way and found a bottle of alcohol in the vehicle.

    The accident shut down the highway for several hours Sunday morning, WDTN-TV reported.

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  • 3 dead after medical helicopter crashes in Rochelle, Ill.

    By Lauren Petty and Alexandra Clark, NBCChicago.com

    A pilot and two nurses from a Rockford hospital were killed Monday night in a medical helicopter crash in Lee County, authorities confirm.

    The helicopter was traveling from Rockford Memorial Hospital to a hospital in Mendota, Ill. when it crashed around 8:30 p.m., according to Federal Aviation Association spokesperson Tony Molinaro.

    Pilot Andy Olson and flight nurses Jim Dillow and Karen Hollis were identified as the deceased. No patients were aboard the helicopter.

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    The helicopter went down in a cornfield in Compton, a small town near Rochelle. The debris scattered across the entire field, according to Lee County Sheriff John R. Varga.

    "Basically what we got was a phone call of an aircraft flying low," Varga said. "People in the area were familiar enough with aircraft that comes across this way, and one of the farmers in the area actually spotted the wreckage."


    Federal inspectors are investigating what caused the crash.

    "At Rockford Health System, our hearts our heavy," the hospital said in a statement. "We grieve the loss of three heroes who dedicated their careers to serving others." 

    The health system said they're looking into the possibility of weather playing a role in the crash. At 8 p.m. Monday, light snow and flurries were reported at an airport near Rochelle.

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  • Cops: Road rage theory in deadly Md. I-95 crash

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    Two people were killed and three others were hospitalized after an accident on Interstate 95 in Harford County, Maryland, early Saturday morning.

    Investigators say that the accident took place at around 2:00 a.m. on the northbound side of Interstate 95 at Maryland Route 24, near Abingdon.

    Investigators believe one of the victims may have been involved in a road rage incident just prior to the accident, and are looking for the occupants of a dark-colored Jeep.

    Maryland State Police say that 31-year-old Veney Tanner, Jr., of Abingdon, and 17-year-old Janelle Jackson of Baltimore were killed when the 2005 Lexus driven by Tanner was struck by a box truck while entering the fast lane of traffic. Authorities say the Lexus caught fire after traveling off the left side of the roadway.

    Maryland State Police Corporal Kevin Watkins is credited with extracting Tanner, Jackson, and a third passenger -- 38-year-old Myron Doram of Randallstown, Md. -- from the burning car. Watkins was treated and released from Upper Chesapeake Hospital for smoke inhalation.

    Tanner was pronounced dead at Chesapeake Hospital, while Jackson was airlifted to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where she was also pronounced dead.

    Doram and the driver of the box truck, 63-year-old Clinton Griffin of Newark, Del., were taken to Bayview Hospital. There is no word on their condition.

    Investigators believe Tanner may have been involved in a road rage incident involving the Jeep shortly before the accident. Authorities say that both vehicles were pulled over on the shoulder past the exit for Maryland Route 24 and at one point, people were seen getting out of the Jeep and walking toward the Lexus. According to investigators, at least one person was seen banging on the windows of the Lexus.

    Police say that Tanner suddenly pulled out from the shoulder and back on to the highway just before the Lexus was struck by the box truck. The exact cause and nature of both the dispute and the crash is under investigation.

     

     

     

  • 140-car pileup in Texas fog kills two, injures dozens

    Some motorists caught in a huge Texas highway pileup are being credited with saving lives of other victims of a crash that spotlights dangers in holiday travel. NBC's Tom Costello reports.

    By NBC News staff and news services

    Updated at 6:50 p.m. ET: Two people died and scores of people were hurt Thursday when up to 140 vehicles collided in in dense fog Southeast Texas in a pileup that left trucks twisted on top of each other and authorities rushing to pull survivors from the wreckage.

    The chain-reaction collision occurred in extremely foggy conditions at about 8:45 a.m. Thanksgiving Day on Interstate 10 southwest of Beaumont, a Gulf Coast city about 80 miles east of Houston.

    A man and a woman were killed in a Chevy Suburban SUV crushed by a tractor trailer, the Texas Department of Public Safety told KFDM-TV.

    Jefferson County sheriff's Deputy Rod Carroll said in a news release that 80 to 90 people were transported to hospitals with 10 to 12 of those in serious to critical condition. He said 140 to 150 vehicles were involved in the pileup.

    According to DPS, a crash on the eastbound side of the highway led to other accidents in a dangerous chain reaction. There were multiple crashes on the other side of the highway as well.

    "We have 18-wheelers on top of cars, we have cars on top of cars. It's just catastrophic," Carroll told NBC News.

    Over 100 vehicles collided on Interstate 10 near Beaumont, Tex., on Thursday, as many were headed to visit family for Thanksgiving. Two were killed and 51 were injured, eight critically, as first responders pulled survivors out of wreckage that went for miles. NBC's Janet Shamlian reports.

    He told The Associated Press the fog was so thick that deputies did not immediately realize they were dealing with multiple accidents.

    I-10's eastbound lanes were re-opened Thursday evening after more than eight hours.

    Texas Department of Public Safety trooper Stephanie Davis told KFDM that two people in an SUV died after the crash. She said at least 100 cars and trucks were involved in the accident.

    Carroll said uninjured drivers tried to help as authorities sorted through the wreckage.

    "It's just people helping people," Carroll said. "The foremost thing in this holiday season is how other travelers were helping us when we were overwhelmed, sitting and holding, putting pressure on people that were injured."

    The highway had been crowded with motorists traveling during the holiday. Many of the vehicles were moving close to the posted speed of 70 mph despite dense fog that limited visibility, Carroll said.

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    Some of the injured on Interstate 10 in Texas are treated near the crash scene Thursday.

    The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.

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