Snowfall causes 'a lot of slideoffs' but no serious injuries

Staff photo by Tony Black Around 4 p.m. snow started to fall quickly on the Miami Valley.

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By Jill Kelley, Staff Writer Updated 9:58 PM Sunday, December 27, 2009

The first more-than-a-dusting snow showers of the season were expected to lay about two inches on the Dayton area by this morning, Monday, Dec. 28.

Most of the snow was forecast to fall Sunday night and taper off by 1 a.m., as upper level disturbances moved through the area, said Meteorologist Mike Gallagher of the National Weather Service’s Wilmington office.

Police dispatchers reported minor, weather-related crashes throughout the evening Sunday, but no serious injuries.

“A lot of slide-offs,” said a dispatcher for the Piqua post of the Ohio Highway Patrol. “They don’t even make contact with each other a lot of times, God bless ’em. We just have to pull them out (of the ditch) and they’re on their way.”

Traffic was backed up on northbound Interstate 75 just south of Tipp City Sunday afternoon, following a three-car pileup. One of the drivers suffered minor injuries and was transported to Upper Valley Medical Center, the dispatcher said.

There also was a series of crashes on southbound I-75 near the Dayton Daily News printing plant in Franklin, according to the Lebanon post of the state patrol.

The weather service forecasts only a slight chance of snow today, and clear skies Tuesday. Temperatures will stay at or below freezing until Thursday, when the chance of snow increases but the high is to reach 35 degrees.

Today’s forecast calls for a high of 28 under mostly cloudy skies. It’ll be breezy, with gusts of up to 31 mph, according to the weather service.

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