Hagerstown, MD : 1 dead, multiple injured in crash involving 4 tractor-trailers on I-81 near Hagerstown on Friday, 1st September 2023

Two people were killed and three others were injured on Interstate 81 in Maryland Friday in a crash involving four tractor-trailers and two cars, Maryland State Police said.

Southbound I-81 is closed near the crash, which happened about 9:40 a.m. north of Hagerstown, near mile marker 10, police said. That’s near the exit for the Hagerstown airport.

A Chevrolet Tahoe apparently struck the back of tractor-trailer that was braking for traffic, police said. That caused a train reactions with three other tractor-trailers and a pickup truck.

The driver of the Tahoe, 55-year-old Wesley Merrick of Wellsville, New York, and a passenger, Alicia Eve Cornell, also of Wellsville, died at the scene, police said.

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