Interstate 64 remained closed into the evening commute on Wednesday after a fiery crash before dawn in the eastbound lanes near the Cochran Hill Tunnels.
One person was killed after five vehicles crashed and caught fire on the interstate.
MetroSafe advised by late afternoon that it would be “several more hours” before the I-64 corridor would reopen.
Heavy equipment worked much of the day removing debris around the heavily charred trucks.
Louisville Metro Police spokesman Dwight Mitchell said Louisville Metro Police Department 5th Division officers along with Louisville Fire Department responded to a call of a multi-vehicle collision on I-64 at the end of the tunnels around 5:30 a.m.
Officials said the collision involved five vehicles including two semi-trucks, a garbage truck and two passenger vehicles.
Mitchell said it is unclear why the vehicles collided with one another causing all the vehicles to catch fire.
One of the drivers in a semi-truck died at the scene.
The drivers of the passenger vehicles and the garbage truck were transported to nearby hospitals with what police said were injuries not considered life-threatening.
The driver of the second semi-truck was not injured.
LMPD’s Traffic Unit is handling the investigation.
Source: WDRB
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