Was on my scanner alert.

Kudos to the emergency services!


Sad for those families who lost folks.

Seriously, these kinds of pile ups are scary and can happen so fast. Anybody out driving in snow/ice/fog/pouring rain needs to be very careful
and hope the next guy isn't texting or yakking on the phone while not paying attention to traffic!

If you're on the highway and a freak snow squall shows up, you're pretty much screwed to put it bluntly.

And even in the best of conditions, it's a highly dangerous road.

This is I-78, it has one of those new fangled grass strip between the lanes, not a concrete wall which is the norm on most of the Turnpike. The Turnpike goes south of Harrisburg, I-78 goes North of Harrisburg. I-78 is NOT a toll road, it is maintained by Penndot not the Turnpike Commission.

Technically I-81 splits from the Turnpike at Carlisle , then I-78 splits from I-81 as I -81 goes by Harrisburg. I-81 then goes to Scranton and I-78 heads to New Jersey. Traffic from all three roads ends up on the Turnpike just before the Turnpike enters the Appalachian Mountains and no real split till Pittsburgh where I-70 splits off and heads for Whelling while I-76 heads for Cleveland. I-70 joins the Turnpike in Breezewood, half way through the mountains. Just a comment on the roads involved.