Girl dies in 87-car pile-up in Ohio; icy roads elsewhere cause 50-car crash

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NBC News - 1/22/13, By Isolde Raftery, Staff Writer, NBC News

Ohio authorities respond to an 87-car crash on Interstate 275 on the outskirts of Cincinnati, Ohio on Sunday. Icy road conditions in Ohio resulted in other major car pile-ups in the area. Joe Wessels / Reuters

A 12-year-old girl was killed in an 87-car pile-up on an Ohio highway on Sunday after a burst of snow hit the area. The accident shut down the highway, I-275 near Cincinnati, for seven hours, WCPO.com reported.

The icy roads, brought on so immediately, were likely to blame, sending 60 cars and 16 tractor-trailers spinning and slamming into each other on the highway just after 11:35 a.m. on Sunday, Reuters reported.

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