More than 150 crashes reported amid dangerous Lexington road conditions

Slippery road conditions caused more than 150 crashes Tuesday morning in Lexington, according to city police.

At 8:45 a.m., Lexington police stopped responding to non-injury collisions due to a high volume of calls, but resumed taking non-injury collision reports at 11:30 a.m. Officers responded to 155 total collisions, 16 of which involved injuries between midnight and 11:30 a.m., according to police.

All lanes of Interstate 75 were closed between mile markers 104 and 110 during the morning commute due to multiple jackknifed tractor-trailers. At 10 a.m., the Lexington Traffic Management Center reported that the interstate had reopened in both directions…

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