Icy patches and slick roads were no match for commuters as spinouts and crashes made for a harrowing ride to work for some and just a long drive for others.
Traffic maps showed red most of the morning, meaning gridlock and bumper to bumper conditions. A rollover on eastbound 94 at Dowling Avenue during the 7 a.m. hour combined with spinouts in the vicinity of 42nd Avenue made traffic jam up back to Maple Grove. That crash also tied up traffic on southbound Hwy. 252 and westbound 610. That cleared around 8:15 a.m. but traffic has yet to recover.
Crashapalooza saw tangled traffic on northbound and southbound Hwy. 100 from Crosstown to 94. Currently the ramp from northbound Hwy. 100 to Hwy. 55 is closed due to an accident.
The current list of mishaps include:
- Southbound Hwy. 100 at Duluth Street
- Westbound 94 at Riverside Avenue
- Westbound Hwy. 55 at Hwy. 110
- Northbound 35E at Lone Oak Road in Eagan and W. 7th Street in St. Paul
- Westbound Hwy. 5 at 494 near the MSP Airport
- Eastbound 94 at 57th Avenue in the Brooklyn Center curve
- Rollover on northbound 35W at 60th Street
- Westbound 494 at Concord Street crash involving a semitrailer truck
