Pileup accident closes I-41 in both directions near Slinger

Dozens of cars and trucks involved in pile up in the snow

All lanes of I-41 have been closed near Highway sixty in Slinger due to a traffic accident, according to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation. Check out viewer movie from the scene courtesy of Kevin Hundley.

All lanes of I-41 have been closed near Highway sixty in Slinger due to a traffic accident, according to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.j

SLINGER — All lanes of I-41 were closed near Highway sixty in Slinger due to “several traffic incidents,” Monday morning, according to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.

Traffic is being asked to exit at WIS 60, drive east to US 45, then south back to I-41.

The incident is expected to take several hours to clear. As of 1:00 p.m., one northbound lane had been reopened.

The Washington County Sheriff`s Office said the crash involved about thirty vehicles, eight of with where semi trucks.

Another thirty cars ended up in the ditch on the side of the interstate, and did not sustain harm.

Five people were sent to the hospital with non-life menacing injuries, and traffic on I-41 was shut down for six hours.

Drivers were fortunate to live through the mess.

Teresa Hall was o her way to Michigan when she found herself in the pileup.

“It was scary, at very first I ended up in the median, I didn’t hit anybody then when I eyed the other cars and where they were going to go it was very scary,” she said.

Josh Fleischman has three youthful boys, and he said it helped him get through the ordeal.

“[They’re] all ten and under and it was just the very first thing I tho’ of was them and how fortunate I was to escape that without any major injury,” he said.

TODAY’S TMJ4 viewer Kevin Hundley sent us movie of the incident about a mile south of the Highway sixty exit, which you can see above.

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