5 Die In Fiery, 6-Vehicle Pileup On I-70 In Kansas

Five people were killed in a fiery six-vehicle wreck that temporarily closed a stretch of Interstate 70 on the western edge of the Kansas City metropolitan area, authorities said. The crash happened Tuesday afternoon when a tractor-trailer driver crested a slight hill and failed to slow for traffic that was stalled because of construction about 2 miles ahead, according to a Kansas Turnpike Authority crash report. The westbound rig rammed a sport utility vehicle and then two cars before crashing into a stopped tractor-trailer. One of the cars, a Ford Taurus, was forced under the stopped tractor-trailer, which then rear-ended a pickup truck.