{"id":17796,"date":"2025-01-09T01:11:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T01:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/its-the-10-year-anniversary-of-the-193-vehicle-pileup-crash-in-michigan-one-of-the-most-massive-in-u-s-history\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T01:11:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T01:11:02","slug":"its-the-10-year-anniversary-of-the-193-vehicle-pileup-crash-in-michigan-one-of-the-most-massive-in-u-s-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/its-the-10-year-anniversary-of-the-193-vehicle-pileup-crash-in-michigan-one-of-the-most-massive-in-u-s-history\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the 10 year anniversary of the 193 vehicle pileup crash in Michigan &#8212; one of the most massive in U.S. history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_84\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Thursday marks the ten year anniversary of a massive fatal pileup crash that happened in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, involving nearly 200 vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The notorious crash occurred on January 9, 2015, on I-94 near Galesburg, Michigan, during winter weather conditions.<\/p>\n<p>In total, 193 vehicles were involved in the chain-reaction crash, including 76 semi trucks and 117 passenger vehicles. Both directions of I-94 were closed for 18 hours for the massive rescue and cleanup effort.<\/p>\n<p>A Canadian truck driver lost his life in the crash. Eighteen other people were injured.<\/p>\n<p>Though the crash was ultimately blamed on unsafe driving, with several drivers receiving citations, the Michigan Department of Transportation has made efforts over the past decade to improve I-94, include resurfacing the roadway, adding more traffic cameras, and new weather information systems.<\/p>\n<p>You can see stunning video of the pileup as it happened below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"150 Car Pile-Up on Michigan Highway I-94\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W9fI5M6_XVk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cdllife.com\/2025\/its-the-10-year-anniversary-of-the-193-vehicle-pileup-crash-in-michigan-one-of-the-most-massive-in-u-s-history\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday marks the ten year anniversary of a massive fatal pileup crash that happened in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, involving nearly 200 vehicles. The notorious crash occurred on January 9, 2015, on I-94 near Galesburg, Michigan, during winter weather conditions. In total, 193 vehicles were involved in the chain-reaction crash, including 76 semi trucks and 117&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}