A man is dead in the aftermath of chain-reaction crashes that included a Wayne County salt truck, the Michigan State Police reported.
The first accident happened about 11:50 p.m. Monday on eastbound Interstate 96 Express lanes near Southfield in Detroit. State police said a Wayne County plow truck was salting the left lane of the highway when the driver of a 2004 Toyota passenger car sideswiped the salt truck.
The Toyota then bounced off the salt truck and stopped in the center lane of eastbound I-96…