{"id":107723,"date":"2024-11-03T18:03:35","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T18:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/truck-crash-kills-4-injures-17-on-michigan-interstate\/"},"modified":"2024-11-03T18:03:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T18:03:35","slug":"truck-crash-kills-4-injures-17-on-michigan-interstate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/truck-crash-kills-4-injures-17-on-michigan-interstate\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck crash kills 4, injures 17 on Michigan interstate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-11-03\/Untitled%20design%20%2843%29.png\" alt><figcaption>Footage of a vehicle explosion taken by a driver on I-96 in Webberville, Mich., Nov. 2, 2024. (Simon Schuster)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(LANSING, MI) &#8212; A semitractor-trailer crashed into backed-up traffic on a Michigan interstate, killing four people and injuring 17 others just before midnight on Saturday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers with the Michigan State Police had been stationed on Interstate 96, controlling traffic as workers installed power lines across the road, the department said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the crash, &#8220;numerous&#8221; cars had come to a halt in the expressway&#8217;s westbound lane near the intersection with M-52, police said. The work, which was being done by Consumers Energy, required the road to be completely shut down for a short period, police.<\/p>\n<p>Those vehicles had just begun moving again when the truck crashed into them, police said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It appears the driver of the semi-truck did not see the backup and could not stop his vehicle in time,&#8221; police said. &#8220;The semi-truck was in the left lane of travel and struck numerous vehicles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The truck and more than a dozen other vehicles caught fire after the crash, police said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Seventeen vehicle occupants have been transported to UM Sparrow Hospital and McLaren Hospital in Lansing for serious injuries,&#8221; police said.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Footage of a vehicle explosion taken by a driver on I-96 in Webberville, Mich., Nov. 2, 2024. (Simon Schuster) (LANSING, MI) &#8212; A semitractor-trailer crashed into backed-up traffic on a Michigan interstate, killing four people and injuring 17 others just before midnight on Saturday, police said. Troopers with the Michigan<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/truck-crash-kills-4-injures-17-on-michigan-interstate\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}