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Two accidents on I-95 less than six hours apart
Second accident had one fatality
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There were two major accidents just one mile apart from each other has caused major traffic issues on Interstate 95.

According to Georgia State Patrol Trooper, Stephen Jones the first accident occurred shortly after midnight when two tractor trailers collided sending one person to Memorial Health University Medical Center in Savannah with head injuries. Less than six hours later the driver of a utility van struck the back of a tractor trailer on mile marker 77 northbound.  The driver of the van was pronounced dead at the scene. 

Jones said the second accident appears to have been connected with the first one when hundreds of cakes were splattered across the highway after the impact.

Interstate 95 is completely shutdown between exit 76 northbound to exit 82 in Bryan County.

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Snow accumulation could be increasing
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Southeast Georgia, including Liberty and Long counties, is under a winter storm warning from the National Weather Service.

The forecast for snowfall total has increased modestly overnight and freezing rain amounts are trending up along the coast.

Forecasters have high confidence that bitterly cold temperatures will impact southeast South Carolina and southeast Georgia this week. Near-record low temperatures are possible Wednesday night. Dangerous wind chills are possible, especially Wednesday night, with values as low as 8-15°F.

Precipitation is expected to arrive this afternoon or early evening, and accumulation of snow and freezing rain is expected. Snow could be from 1 to 2.5 inches, with locally higher amounts possible. An accumulation of close to a quarter-inch of ice is projected for mainly coastal counties.

The risk of additional freezing rain along the immediate coast Thursday night is now very low.

There are also could be travel issues into Wednesday night and Thursday as wet roads could refreeze.

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