An 18-wheel tractor-trailer crashed into several cars Wednesday afternoon on Long Island, starting a chain reaction of multiple-vehicle accidents that left one woman dead and 33 others injured, according to the Associated Press.
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About 35 vehicles ended up in the pileup on the Long Island Expressway (LIE) in Shirley, N.Y. The tractor-trailer that started it all wound up on fire, along with several other vehicles. The fatality, a 68-year-old resident of Blue Point, was dead at the scene, AP reported.
The tractor-trailer driver, Raymond Simoneau, 42, of Vermont, was driving east on the LIE when he hit several cars at 2:40 p.m., starting a pileup that stretched across the many lanes of the LIE, according to AP. He wasn’t hurt.
Authorities were investigating why Simoneau seemed to lose control of his truck and crash into other vehicles. Weather like fog wasn’t to blame, since the accident took place on a sunny day.