![]() ![]() “First responders actually had difficulty getting to the vehicles,” a Fort Worth Fire spokesperson said while briefing media on Thursday morning. The pileup was declared a “mass casualty event” shortly after fire and rescue crews arrived on the scene. ![]() The crash site stretched for 1 ½ miles, with some cars wedged beneath 18-wheelers and pickup trucks. But it felt like an eternity.” Fort Worth Authorities Declare I-35 Crash a “Mass Casualty Event” “Everything probably happened in 10 seconds, 15 seconds. “Honestly, just waiting for it to whack me too. You couldn’t see anything,” one crash survivor told ABC-8, describing his own near-miss with the FedEx 18-wheeler. Other cars, pickup trucks, and 18-wheelers then began crashing into the FedEx truck and each other. The semi-truck hit a barrier before plowing into multiple other vehicles, crushing one and flipping two. While it’s not clear exactly how the pileup began, a video shows the FedEx 18-wheeler losing control on a downhill slope. That particular stretch of I-35W was coated in a thin sheet of ice left from freezing rain that had been falling since the previous evening. The February 11 th accident occurred around 6:30 a.m., as a massive winter storm brought frigid temperatures and treacherous roads to the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex on Thursday morning. ![]() FedEx 18-Wheeler Lost Control on Downhill Slope A sixth person has died following yesterday morning’s horrific multi-vehicle pileup along Interstate 35 West in Fort Worth, Texas.Īccording to media reports, the deadly chain-reaction crash involved at least 133 vehicles, including a FedEx truck and more than a dozen other 18-wheelers. ![]()
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