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Tractor-trailer runs over car, truck in fatal 10-vehicle wreck

At least three people have died in a wreck on I-16 in Middle Georgia. (Credit: Macon Telegraph)
At least three people have died in a wreck on I-16 in Middle Georgia. (Credit: Macon Telegraph)
By Ellen Eldridge
July 12, 2017

Three people are dead and many more have been hurt in a 10-vehicle wreck on I-16 in Macon, officials said.

A tractor-trailer ran over a car and a pickup truck, causing a chain reaction that involved a church van, the Macon Telegraph reported.

Fire engulfed some of the cars along I-16 near Ocmulgee East Boulevard, the newspaper reported.

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