Cranberry township. It happened less than two hours ago. One person was kill and dozens suffered minor injuries and 15 cars, four tractor trailers, two box trucks and a loaded bus were involved in the inner roadway. At least a dozen schools have already decided to delay their opening in the morning. That is because of icy conditions. We are running the the list of schools at the bottom of your screen. Meanwhile, lets check out double scan radar and meteorologist cecily tynan cecily, it is pretty bad out there. Is this just what you expect. Unfortunately it is. I was talk about during action news at 6 00 that with temperatures below freezing until midday tomorrow icing will be a big problem. Storm tracker six live double scan showing we have another batch of moisture moving in, and this you can see sleet and freezing rain. Do you see this rain in virginia. This will be moving in delaware and south jersey in the overnight hours and with temperatures below freezing that will be freezing r
Midday tomorrow. So, this is what to expect overnight. Not any heavy precipitation but some scattered pockets of freezing rain mixing in with a little bitter of sleet. Could have a few snow showers in the wee hours of morning could leave a quick coating. The big problem is that any surface thats not treated will get icy especially sidewalks and driveways also bridges and overpasses so do you want to be very careful. Once this system is out of here im tracking two more later in the week with some snow showers and then the coldest air mass so far this seasonally ill talk about that in the accuweather 7day forecast. Jim. All right, cecily. Lets go live to new jersey correspondent Nora Muchanic on route 1 in trenton. Nor remarks both cars and people have been experiencing their fair share of bumps and bruises. Reporter jim, the ice that were seeing on roadways and driveways is absolutely treacherous and lots of people are learning that the hard way today. Side streets and sidewalks no good
Matt delucia is live on the scene. How long has the road been shut down and how much longer will it be like this . Reporter well, vai, the crash happened about 7 15 this morning, right here at the intersection of dupont highway and bear road. Ill get out of the way. Most of this has cleared up now. Theyre bringing in a sweeper to clean up the mess that has been out here and all the fuel that spilled out on to the roadways. Were expecting this road to reopen shortly. But state police tell us one person died as a result of this collision that involved four vehicles and it was quite a mess out here. Had a Ripple Effect on traffic in this area. Skyforce10 has a better angle of what happened at this intersection. One of the cars you can see was completely destroyed in the crash. State Police Brought out an Accident Reconstruction Team to put all this together. That took up quite a bit of time in delaying reopening of this highway. From the ground a Large Police Presence was out here going o
The pileup involves more than 15 vehicles. That includes four tractortrailers and at least one car was on fire. Karen is tracking delays continued delays there and david has accuweather. Good morning. All right, on the big board we have Storm Tracker 6 live double scan this morning guys, showing us that most of the region is done with the active precipitation. There might be a little freezing drizzle here or there but the main bodies of precip are south of wilmington. Looks like theyre just to the south of 295 in south jersey and then another batch farther south just below dover delaware and some of this has been creeping over into cape may county. Beneath these, this is freezing rain and sleet. You do have some new ice forming so be careful down there but even up in these areas where the precipitation is over, there has been some new rounds of overnight sleeting and we do have some new rounds of ice. The Winter Weather advisory has been extended until 8 oclock across much of the regio
Traffic, at least one person was killed and several others injured in a major pileup along the new jersey turnpike. This crash happened last night during a mix of rain and snow flurries and below freezing temperatures in cranbury a township southwest of new york city. The pileup included more than 15 vehicles including four tractortrailers, two box trucks an full loaded bus and multiple cars. At one point after least one car was on fire. The series of crashes led to the closure of all southbound lanes. Police are investigating whether icy roads played a factor in this accident. Karen is following details in traffic david has the accuweather forecast. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. We still have a little bit of leftover sleet trying to push new areas south of philadelphia. Looks like it might clip wilmington and some of this is going to cross parts of south jersey over the next hour or so. Might even take a little longer than an hour to get past us but in through philadelphia an