(WBIR - MCMINN COUNTY) For the first time since a massive 99-car pileup on the I-75 in southeastern Tennessee, fog has forced the closure of the interstate for two mornings in a row.
On December 11, 1990, a heavy fog descended on the interstate near the McMinn/Bradley County line, making visibility so bad that dozens of drivers were involved in that chain-reaction crash. More than a dozen people were killed, and forty were injured.
The state took measures to make sure a crash like that never happened again. They posted fog warnings and extra reflectors in the area.
But it took 25 years for the fog to get so bad in that spot again that the Tennessee Highway Patrol and the Tennessee Department of Transportation were forced to actually shut down the interstate in that area as a precaution Tuesday and Wednesday.