Snowstorms, Icy Roads Cripple Midwest, East
Snowstorms on Friday spread as much as five inches of snow across the Midwest and East, causing fender-benders on icy roads and preventing school buses from making their rounds.
A band of snow reached from northern Indiana across the lower Great Lakes to upstate New York and northern Vermont. Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan received two to five inches as the storm rolled east, the National Weather Service said.
In Erie, Pa., a USAir DC-9 slid off the end of a snow-covered runway. Five crew members and 18 passengers escaped the plane by a forward emergency chute.
In St. Louis, 59 persons were treated at hospitals after they fell on patches of ice formed on roads and sidewalks by freezing drizzle overnight. Public Health Commissioner William Hope said that 17 of the injured suffered broken bones.
Roads in lower Michigan were snow-covered and slick from the storm. Nearly 60 school districts in 22 Michigan counties canceled classes because roads were impassable.
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