Icy roads lead to 50-car pileup in Michigan

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[h=4]Icy roads lead to 50-car pileup in Michigan[/h]A major Michigan highway is open again after icy roads caused<span style="color: Red;">*</span>multiple crashes, slide-offs and spin-outs Friday afternoon.

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At least 50 vehicles involved in US-131 accidents


An overturned pickup on southbound U.S. 131 near 17 Mile Road.(Photo: Adriana Mendez, WZZM)


KENT COUNTY, Mich. — A major Michigan highway is open again after icy roads caused multiple crashes, slide-offs and spin-outs Friday afternoon.
At least 50 cars were involved in a pileup on the southbound side of U.S. Highway 131 in western Michigan. A firefighter on the scene said there could be as many as 80 cars involved.
Officials said a small dusting of snow turned the roads into a sheet of ice.
On Friday afternoon, conditions also led to spin-offs on northbound US-131, including a tanker that couldn't get past a slippery patch. Other vehicles couldn't avoid the tanker, and crews shut down that side of the highway at that point.
Emergency dispatch received almost 1,000 calls about weather related crashes on Friday, Officer Russ Esther, with the Kent County Sheriff's Office, told NBC.
There were no reports of major injuries.
Gallery: Crashes, spin-outs caused by light snow

"The county hadn't even gotten much snow," Esther told NBC. "The sidewalks aren't even covered. I can still see the grass.But the snow came down hard, and the vehicles running over the snow melted it and then froze it."
By 6 p.m., the freeway was completely open on Friday.
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