COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – One person is dead after their vehicle crashed on a Downtown, Columbus interstate exit interchange late Sunday night. According to the Columbus Police Accident Investigation Unit, an adult was operating a 2004 Chevrolet Trailblazer on the westbound ramp of I-70 to I-71 North when the vehicle veered to the left side […]
BYERS, Colo. (KDVR) — A family of eight is stranded in Colorado after a fiery crash with an Amazon semitruck last week on Interstate 70. From fun at the Juneteenth festivities in Denver to sheer panic on a family road trip home, the family says they have no way back to Missouri and do not […]
A woman is dead after a crash on I-70 in Washington County. The Washington County coroner said Kaylee Ogea, 18, from North Carolina, was driving on I-70 near the West Virginia state line on Sunday. She lost control of her vehicle and rolled over. Investigators say they were alerted of the crash at 3:07 a.m. […]
Jun. 21—EFFINGHAM — The Effingham County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday that it will be patrolling the roadway leading up to the construction zone on Interstate 70, in an effort to reduce accidents. Reconstruction began this spring on westbound Interstate 70 from just east of the I-57/70 interchange to just east of the Cumberland/Effingham County line, […]
Missouri broke ground Thursday on a major infrastructure project: the long-awaited expansion and modernization of Interstate 70. Running east to west across the state and connecting Kansas City to Columbia and St. Louis, I-70 is a significant thoroughfare for commuters, commercial truckers and travelers alike. The project will widen the interstate to three lanes in […]
One person was injured after a crash on I-70 in Westmoreland County. Westmoreland County dispatchers say emergency crews were called to the eastbound lanes of I-70 near exit 46A at 4:32 p.m. Firefighters from the Rostraver Central Fire Department said the crash involved a motorcycle. The injured person was life-flighted to a hospital from the […]
Drivers travelling along Interstate 70 westbound in Fairfield County saw significant delays Sunday as all lanes were closed near Ohio 256 Sunday after a dump truck overturned on the highway. The crash was reported around 1:20 p.m., and the I-70 westbound lane was closed while first responders clear the road of debris from an overturned […]
One person was flown to a Pittsburgh hospital after crashing Saturday in Washington County. It happened around 2 p.m. at the Interstate 70 westbound off-ramp to East Beau Street, according to the South Strabane Fire Department. An SUV hit the jersey barriers at a high rate of speed and overturned, trapping the driver, the department […]
The “I-70 Strangler” has become a ghost story about a faceless boogeyman who hunted boys and men in the 1980s and 1990s. At least 12 bodies were found partially nude and strangled and dumped in streams, gullies and trenches along Interstate 70 in Indiana and Ohio. Over the years, investigators looked at two notorious serial […]
Eastbound lanes of I-70 through Kansas City closed Friday afternoon after a tanker truck carrying plant chemicals overturned on the highway. The truck overturned around 12:45 p.m. at I-70 and I-435, according to Battalion Chief Michael Hopkins, a spokesperson for the Kansas City Fire Department. It was filled with a plant growth enhancement chemical similar […]
A semi carrying over 150 pigs overturned and closed the ramp to Intestate 70 Tuesday morning. News Center 7′s Kayla McDermott has been on the scene of the crash for hours. We’ll have an update with the latest details on News Center 7 at 5:00. Ohio State Highway Patrol Troopers were dispatched at 5:18 a.m. […]
Jun. 4—Two people are dead after a report of a wrong-way driver on Interstate 70 ended with the discovery of an apparent murder-suicide on Monday, according to the Preble County Sheriff’s Office. In a release, the sheriff’s office said that at about 5:15 p.m. they were dispatched along with the Ohio State Highway Patrol to […]