China News Service, January 29 (Xinhua) Comprehensive foreign media reports, on the 27th local time, southern Wisconsin in the United States encountered heavy snow, resulting in a large-scale serial rear-end collision of 85 vehicles on the highway, injuring at least 21 people.

  According to the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC), the Wisconsin State Patrol said in a statement that the accident happened at about 12:30 p.m. A series of rear-end collisions, 21 people were sent to the area hospital for treatment, no life-threatening at present.

  Interstate 39/90, where the accident occurred, was reportedly blocked for several hours and local police assisted in diverting the vehicle to a side road.

All lanes were not reopened until 9:45 p.m.

  According to Fox News, citing WIFR-TV in Illinois, USA, 27 people were injured in the accident.

  "The road turned into a blinding white, the reflections made it difficult to navigate, and the road was very slippery," a driver named Brady told ABC.

  Brady was on his way to Illinois at the time, and "the chain collision happened in an instant, and my car rolled over trying to avoid hitting the pickup truck in front of me." Brady said.

  Another multi-vehicle collision blocked Interstate 41 near the Wisconsin-Illinois border around 1:30 p.m., the Wisconsin State Patrol said in a separate statement.

Northbound lanes reopened at 7.35pm that night.

  Wisconsin state patrol officials said a mixture of snow and ice and albinism (the phenomenon of being surrounded by snow or clouds and making vision go blank) were the main causes of the accident.

  According to data from the National Weather Service, as of 6 am local time on the 28th, the snowfall in the Beloit area of ​​Wisconsin in the past 24 hours was 2.2 inches (about 5.59 centimeters).

Much of the southern part of the state remains under a winter weather warning, with roads facing "slippery conditions".