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A combination of dense fog and heavy smoke from a fire that may have been set intentionally led to a chain-reaction series of accidents along Interstate 75 on Sunday morning.
The wreckage was strewn out along at least a mile of highway. Visibility rapidly dropped to zero and rescue workers said they couldn’t see their hands in front of their faces.
They had to resort to listening for screams in order to find victims of the crash.
At least a dozen cars and six tractor-trailers were involved.
“You could hear cars hitting each other. People were crying. People were screaming. It was crazy,” said another victim. “If I could give you an idea of what it looked like, I would say it looked like the end of the world.”
Cars smashed into semi trucks. A motor home was destroyed. It was chaos.
One vehicle had four fatalities. Eighteen people were taken to a nearby hospital.
“As it was happening on the northbound side, it was happening on the southbound side as well,” said another victime. “There was nowhere to go. It was just cars hitting cars and cars.”
He called the scene “horrendous.”
“Everybody was crying,” he said. “You still can’t see anything.” Some motorists were trapped in their cars, he said, calling it “mass chaos.”
View photos from the scene and video below.
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