A blast of cold air caused wet roads to freeze across the Eastern U.S., triggering airport delays in the nation’s capital and major traffic pileups in Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina. Authorities say two people were killed when a tanker carrying gasoline skidded off a highway and exploded.
Authorities say two people were killed and at least several were injured when the tanker careened off an interstate in Baltimore and caught fire. Local news media outlets reported that the crash Saturday caused a pileup involving dozens of cars, and the Baltimore Sun reported that 15 people were taken to the hospital.
It was not immediately clear whether the crash involving the gas tanker was caused by slick roads, although scores of traffic accidents were being reported across the region due to icy roads.
Officials have not released the names of the two people killed in the crash.
Earlier Saturday, Bob Maloney of the Baltimore City Office of Emergency Management was quoted by WBAL-TV as saying that at least 30 cars were involved in an accident on northbound I-95.