UPDATE: I-80 was reopened a little after 5:00 p.m. but residual slowdowns haunted the rest of afternoon drive Friday.
A front loader was brought in to clear debris that was all over the three westbound lanes after a semi truck jack-knifed in a multi-vehicle crash.
An oil spill also had to be cleaned off the road before traffic could resume.
ORIGINAL STORY:
A jack-knifed semi spread debris over all three lanes of I-80 on the northwest side of the Des Moines Interstate loop just before 3:30 Friday afternoon. The stretch of WB 80 near Douglas was closed, and exits at 141 and 86th Street were also closed.
Responders called for a snow plow to clear debris. Listen to AM1040 WHO for updated traffic information from the WHO Traffic Cente.r
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