Icy conditions has caused a deadly, 67-vehicle pileup and a fiery explosion along the Interstate 95 in Baltimore on Saturday as the first significant winter storm of the season wreaked havoc across the region.

The fatal crash was captured in part by another motorist in a dramatic cellphone video. It was one of the hundreds of accidents in the icy weather system that had grounded flights, cut power to thousands of homes and snarled traffic on one of the busiest weekends for holiday shopping of the year.

Officials had reopened all lanes of I-95 late on Saturday, but state police had extended a travel advisory throughout the region through Sunday.

The accident on northbound I-95 between Caton Avenue and Washington Boulevard, in which a tanker had been carrying gasoline fell from a bridge and exploded on CSX Transportation railroad tracks below around 5 AM. The crash left two dead and more than two dozen others injured, said, Maryland Transportation Authority Police and local hospital officials.

The University of Maryland Medical Center had reported seven patients under care at Shock Trauma. Two patients had been in critical condition, two in serious condition and three in fair condition. No patients were reported to be in the emergency department.

By Prakriti Neogi