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Monday 23 deceMber 2019

Police: 69-vehicle

pileup in Virginia leaves

dozens injured

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) Press he started slowing his
— A pileup involving more truck down and turned his
than 60 cars on a major in- hazard lights on when he
terstate in Virginia on Sun- saw thick fog.
day morning injured doz- "Next thing I know I see cars
ens of people, according just start piling up on top of
to state police. each other," he said.
The crash happened just Levy was able to stop in
Cars are piled on top of one another following a multi-vehicle pileup on Interstate 64 in York before 8 a.m. Sunday on time but then got a call
County, Va., Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019. westbound Interstate 64 in from his wife saying she
Associated Press York County near Williams- had been in the wreck.
burg, Virginia State Police "It was just so scary," said
Sgt. Michelle Anaya said. Alena Levy, who was eval-
No fatalities were reported, uated at a hospital but was
but it took crews several not seriously injured.
hours to clear the roadway Ivan Levy said he ran past
and reopen all lanes of cars to find his wife and
traffic. help her out. They made
Authorities do not yet know their way back to his truck,
the cause of the crash, but and Ivan Levy said he then
fog and icy road condi- grabbed a medical kit
tions were contributing fac- and started checking on
tors, Anaya said. other victims because first
Photos from the scene responders hadn't arrived
showed a tangled mass yet.
of metal, with car hoods Sixty-nine vehicles were
crumpled, windows involved in the crash, and
smashed and a red truck 51 people were treated or
plopped on top of another transported to hospitals,
vehicle. Anaya said Sunday after-
Ivan Levy said he and his noon, noting that those
wife were both headed to figures were constantly
Williamsburg, where they changing.
work, in separate vehicles Among those hurt, two
around the time of the were listed in critical con-
crash. dition and 11 were serious
Levy told The Associated but not life-threatening,
said York County Fire Chief
Stephen Kopczynski.
An investigation into the
cause of the crash was on-
going.
In a separate incident,
eight cars were involved in
a crash on I-64 in the op-
posite direction after the
larger pileup, Anaya said. It
wasn't immediately clear if
others were injured in that
crash. Ivan Levy said the
car his wife had been driv-
ing was a Christmas gift.
"She was all upset about
the vehicle, and I was like,
'Look, honey, it's just met-
al,'" he said.q