Eastbound I-80 traffic backup exiting on Salt Springs Road

Cars and trucks were backed up to the I-680 split in Austintown shortly before noon after a fiery tanker crash closed the highway at around 6 a.m. Until then, the detour for eastbound traffic is I-680 to SR 711 to SR 11 to SR 82 to US 62. ODOT has reopened the I-80 westbound and State Route 11 southbound lanes, which were closed twice in the morning after the fire re-ignited. State Troopers say the 8,000 gallon tanker truck went off the road, rolled over and caught fire in the eastbound lanes of