In this photo provided by the Indiana State Police, emergency crews work at the scene of a massive pileup involving about 15 semitrailers and about 15 passenger vehicles and pickup trucks along Interstate 94 Thursday Jan. 23, 2014 near Michigan City, Ind. At least three were killed and more than 20 people were injured.MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. – About 30 vehicles, half of the semitrailers, collided amid whiteout conditions in a massive highway pileup that left three people dead and more than 20 others injured in northwestern Indiana, police said.
The pileup on Interstate 94 Thursday afternoon involved about 15 semitrailers and about 15 passenger vehicles and pickup trucks, according to Indiana State Police.
One injured person remained trapped in a vehicle hours after the pileup began, police said.
“They’re still trying to get to all the vehicles. They are cutting and extricating the vehicles,” LaPorte County Coroner John Sullivan told The Associated Press amid the rescue effort.
The accident happened near Michigan City, about a 60-mile drive from Chicago, and amid snowy, frigid conditions. I-94 is the main highway heading east from Chicago to Michigan and Indiana and is the main thoroughfare between the nation’s third-largest city and Detroit.