(The Center Square) – No deaths have been reported from a 69-vehicle pileup and all lanes of Interstate 95 in South Carolina near the community of Santee were reopened about 6 a.m. Friday morning.
Seventeen people were taken to McLeod Health Clarendon by Clarendon County Fire Rescue. Reports of other agencies and patients at other hospitals was also reported.
The crash happened Thursday morning amid dense fog in Clarendon County near the Orangeburg County line, initially reported as a six-vehicle crash. Responding authorities estimated 92 vehicles stretched onto the Lake Marion bridge, with 15 tractor-trailer rigs among the wreckage between mile markers 98 and 100.
The bridge is about a mile in length.
I-95 is a major artery on the East Coast from Florida to Maine, impacting the economy and tourism.
