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Metro Detroit Wakes Up To Snow Friday: 'Problems Are All Over'

DETROIT (WWJ) Craig Bryson with the Road Commission for Oakland County said salt trucks have been out all night and still no area is immune to snow and slippery pavement.

"I don't know if any particular area is worse than any other area, problems are all over," Bryson said. "But we've got crews out county-wide so we're hitting it all over the place."

Bryson says his advice is to slow down and factor in extra travel time to get to work or school Friday morning.

"We've been out all night, but the snow was falling pretty hard for awhile ... It's obviously a pretty big job right now," he said.

Thought the temperatures are frigid, it is warm enough for salt to cut through ice, Bryson added.

Calls flooded the WWJ newsroom about road conditions.

"Southbound 23, just south of 96, a tractor trailer is partially rolled off the road and it looked like another SUV had also rolled off of 23 southbound," one caller said.

On I-75 south from 14 Mile to I-94 westbound and McNichols to the I-94 on-ramp, the roads were very slick and the lane dividers nearly impossible to see, another driver reported.

"I just got onto I-75 at 12 Mile, heading south and somebody apparently spun out on the ramp itself and hit the rail, their car is smashed up," someone said.

On M-59 westbound, east of I-75, there were multiple accidents with police on the scene.

"Traffic is beginning to back up considerably," the driver advised.

 

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