NEXT Drive Alert: Slippery roads, traffic delays Thursday morning following significant snowfall
MINNEAPOLIS — A NEXT Drive Alert has been issued for Thursday morning's commute due to slippery roads that are causing traffic delays.
Transportation officials are reporting multiple morning crashes in the metro area — many of them being spin-outs. There is some ice on roadways in the southeast metro, but most of the ice is being reported to the west and southwest of the metro area. Meanwhile, traffic appears to be slow throughout the metro.
Hundreds of crashes have been reported over the last 24 hours. According to the Minnesota State Patrol, there were 306 crashes from 7 a.m. Wednesday through 7 am. Thursday. Twenty-one of those crashes included injury, with two of them serious or fatal.
In addition to the crashes, there were also 257 vehicle spin-outs and 11 jackknifed semis in that timespan.
A daily snow record was set Wednesday at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, with 6.9 inches measured. Metro cities saw anywhere between 4-7 inches of accumulation.
The forecast high is 30 on Thursday, with no new snow and plenty of sunshine.