Icy, fatal crashes in Baltimore Saturday morning

In a view looking at the I-96 overpass, emergency equipment extract the wreckage of a tractor trailer that exploded and fell from the bridge during the scene of a crash that shut down I-95.An ice storm created slick conditions, sparking a chain reaction pile-up involving dozens of vehicles, including a truck that tumbled over the Jersey wall near the Caton Avenue exit. Both directions were shut down for hours, between Caton Avenue and the I-395 interchange into Baltimore.

Baltimore, MD -- 12/17/2016 -- In a view looking beneath the northbound I-95 overpass from Grove Street in southwest Baltimore, A CSX worker checks the rails which were blackened by fire at the scene of a crash that shut down I-95. An ice storm created slick conditions, sparking a chain reaction pile-up involving dozens of vehicles, including a truck that tumbled over the Jersey wall near the Caton Av exit. Both directions were shut down for hours, between Caton Avenue and the I-395 interchange into Baltimore. (Karl Merton Ferron / Baltimore Sun Staff) [ (P4720443.JPG)]  (Karl Merton Ferron / Baltimore Sun)

In a view from Grove Street under I-95 in southwest Baltimore, ice remains on the branches as a tractor trailer rests beside a car which is pinned to the jersey wall during the scene of a crash that shut down I-95.

In a view looking at the I-95 overpass from Grove Street in southwest Baltimore, emergency equipment extract the wreckage of a tractor trailer that exploded and fell from the bridge and onto a railroad tracksduring the scene of a crash that shut down I-95. An ice storm created slick conditions, sparking a chain reaction pile-up involving dozens of vehicles, including a truck that tumbled over the Jersey wall near the Caton Avenue exit. Both directions were shut down for hours, between Caton Avenue and the I-395 interchange into Baltimore.