Maryland I-270 pileup involving 20 vehicles leaves multiple injured

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Several motorists were injured after a tractor trailer carrying stones and gravel lost its load on a Maryland interstate outside the nation’s capital, causing a pileup involving 20 vehicles, officials said.

The Montgomery County Fire & Rescue Service said the crash was reported in the southbound lanes of Interstate 270 around 5:20 a.m. in Germantown, located about 24 miles northwest of Washington D.C.

Pete Piringer, a spokesman for Montgomery County Fire, tweeted that rescue personnel evaluated 24 people at the scene, and four were transported to area hospitals.