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 BRISTOL, Ind. (AP) - A tractor-trailer slammed into traffic that had slowed for a construction project Thursday morning, starting a pileup that killed eight people and injured two others, police said.
Five people in a pickup truck were among the dead, Indiana State Police said. Four of them were Amish residents of nearby LaGrange County, Bristol Fire Chief William Dempster said.
The crash started around 6:45 a.m. on a rainy stretch of the Indiana Toll Road. The westbound lanes were narrowing to one for bridge construction over the St. Joseph River about a mile and a half ahead, and traffic had come to a standstill in the right lane as traffic merged into the left, said state police Sgt. Trent Smith.
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