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Highway Accidents Claim One Life

The State Highway Patrol says a pileup on I 275 near Cincinnati involving at least 86 vehicles Monday left a 12-year-old girl dead.At least 20 injured people were taken to hospitals.  Troopers say an estimated 50 vehicles were in a pileup on I-75, between Middletown and Monroe. Minor injuries were reported. Troopers also say four semis and 20 cars were involved in an afternoon pileup on I-71 near Mansfield. And lanes of I-270 have been reopened following a 30 vehicle crash that left three people injured. The Patrol blames ice-and-snow covered roads.

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.