{"id":285600,"date":"2016-12-18T03:08:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T02:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ice-storm-near-washington-causes-100s-of-road-crashes-killing-4-injuring-many-others\/"},"modified":"2016-12-18T03:09:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-18T02:09:01","slug":"ice-storm-near-washington-causes-100s-of-road-crashes-killing-4-injuring-many-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ice-storm-near-washington-causes-100s-of-road-crashes-killing-4-injuring-many-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice storm near Washington causes 100s of road crashes, killing 4, injuring many others"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong><span>An ice storm striking the region around the US capital Washington has caused hundreds of collisions, including a 55-vehicle pile-up in Baltimore and a 23-vehicle crash on a Virginia Beltway, killing at least four, injuring scores more and causing many flight cancellations\u00a0and power outages across the area.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#111111\">The most serious accident involving 55 vehicles occurred around 3:30 am Saturday on the Interstate 95 highway in Baltimore after a tanker tractor trailer went off the road and burst into flames.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<figure style=\"display:inline-block\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20161218\/bc6d02e8-cd3b-48eb-86a2-918b60de60d0.jpg\"\/><figcaption>A line of mangled passenger vehicles rest on the northbound I-95 shoulder during the scene of a crash that shut down the highway on December 17, 2016. (Photo via Baltimore Sun)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#111111\">The deadly crash, in which the tanker fell from a bridge and exploded on CSX Transportation railroad tracks below, killed two people and injured 15 others, the local daily <em>Baltimore Sun<\/em> reported citing Maryland Transportation Authority Police.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#111111\">The crash was one of \u201chundreds of&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/12\/18\/498361\/US-ice-storm-road-accidents-55vehicle-pileup-Washington-Baltimore-Virginia\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ice storm striking the region around the US capital Washington has caused hundreds of collisions, including a 55-vehicle pile-up in Baltimore and a 23-vehicle crash on a Virginia Beltway, killing at least four, injuring scores more and causing many flight cancellations\u00a0and power outages across the area. The most serious accident involving 55 vehicles occurred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":285602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-285600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}