Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge: 25 cars caught in pileup

It was a morning of mayhem on the Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge.

As many as 25 vehicles were involved in 10 crashes, leading to a pile-up that shuttered northbound lanes for roughly three hours as snow piled up on the new $3.9 billion bridge Wednesday morning.

Rockland County officials said the chain reaction started around 9:30 a.m. when a woman exited her vehicle after a three-car fender bender and an approaching tractor trailer could not stop. The tractor trailer hit her car and pinned her against her car and the guard rail.

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From there, county officials said, more cars ended up crashing into one another.

No fatalities were reported. Nyack Hospital confirmed they had received nine people injured in the crashes, two of whom had suffered serious injuries but were in stable condition and transported to Westchester Medical Center.

Rockland EMS also responded to calls for individuals trapped in their car on the bridge on-ramp and state police responded to a call for a jackknifed tractor trailer on I-87 near the bridge approach.

Northbound lanes were closed in their entirety for about three hours, until around noon when one lane was opened. Southbound lanes were closed for about an hour around 10 a.m. to allow ambulances to get to the scene.

Once the crashes were cleared up, the leftmost northbound and southbound lanes were closed so crews could perform barrier repairs.

While the bridge crashes were the biggest of a day marked by snowy weather, they were not the only ones.

State police said there were other, minor accidents in the region, while Westchester County police responded to spin-outs and fender benders on the Hutchinson River, Saw Mill River, Bronx River and Sprain Brook parkways.

Additionally, school districts across the Lower Hudson Valley either canceled school or called off after-school activities.

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Journal News/lohud.com reporter David Robinson contributed to this report.

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