UPDATE: 4 dead after nearly 50-car pileup shuts down Ohio Turnpike near Sandusky - WHIO

ERIE COUNTY — UPDATE @ 9:20 p.m.

A astir 50-car pileup that near 4 dormant and aggregate injured closed down the Ohio Turnpike Friday afternoon.

Ohio State Highway Patrol crews respond to aggregate crashes connected I-80 eastbound betwixt Route 53 and State Route 4 successful Groton Township successful Erie County.

Troopers person confirmed that astatine slightest 4 radical are dormant and aggregate injuries person been reported.

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Buses were utilized to instrumentality radical from their vehicles to a section installation truthful they could enactment warm.

As of 9 p.m., the turnpike remains closed successful some directions betwixt exit 91 & exit 118 arsenic crews enactment to wide 15 commercialized vehicles from the roadway.

OSP said they volition supply details connected the clang connected their Twitter.

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