article_snippet.sent: The big truck came to a halt after slamming into the back of a tanker.
article_snippet.sent: Traffic was heavy at that hour because an unrelated wreck about a mile ahead that forced motorists to slow, Nease said. '
article_snippet.sent: Traffic was sort of stop-and-go when the tractor-trailer came along and struck one of the passenger vehicles in the rear,' Nease said. '
article_snippet.sent: The crash halted some motorists for more than six hours as road crews and tow trucks cleared the wreckage.
article_snippet.sent: Even when traffic began moving again, troopers kept a 6-mile stretch of eastbound I-16 closed as troopers investigated.
article_snippet.sent: We did have heavy, heavy traffic.'