Winter Storm Neptune Update: 6 Dead in Icy Crashes

Weather Underground

Winter Storm Neptune thrashed Northeast on Sunday with heavy snow, high winds and dangerously cold temperatures. At least six deaths have been blamed on the storm. Here’s the latest:

• Ohio: Three people were killed in accidents. A pregnant woman and her unborn child died in a multivehicle pileup that closed the westbound lanes of the Ohio Turnpike just east of Sandusky, authorities said. A 24-year-old Buffalo, New York, man was killed when the car he was riding in on I-71 in Morrow County hit a tractor-trailer and went off the road.

• Indiana: A 7-year-old child was killed in a multi-vehicle accident on US-20 near the town of Rolling Prairie, according to the La Porte County Sheriff’s Office.
• New York: A 33-year-old woman and a 9-year-old girl died in an accident on the New York State Thruway on Saturday.
• Chicago: A chain-reaction crash involving 38 vehilces shut down part of the Kennedy Expressway on Sunday morning. Twelve people were taken to area hospitals.
• Boston: Neptune had dumped more than a foot of snow on the city. … Thundersnow was reported in parts of the metro early Sunday morning. … Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority suspended Sunday service, and Boston enacted a parking ban.
• Massachusetts: Part of a roof collapsed at a 24-unit apartment building in Newburport displaced 70-80 residents, officials said. No one was injured. … Winds gusted up to 62 mph in Nantucket.
• New Hampshire: A partial roof collapse at an apartment complex in Portsmouth displaces 30 people, police said. In Seabrook, a portion of a strip mall rool collapsed.
• Washington, D.C.: A multi-vehicle crash closed the D.C. Beltway early Sunday morning and injured at least six people, NBC 4 reports.
• Maryland: Icy road conditions caused a Metro bus to slide into a ditch in Rockville, but no one was injured in the accident.
• Power outages: About 95,000 customers were without power Sunday morning across 16 states.
• Blizzard warnings: More than 5 million people remain under blizzard warnings in three states: Maine, Massachusetts,and New Hampshire.

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