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BREAKING: I-94 Traffic Backed Up Due to Tanker Fuel Spill

If you're traveling to the Detroit Metro Airport, you'll need to find an alternate route.

DETROIT, MI – Interstate 94 traffic to the Metro Detroit Airport is backed up to the Southfield Freeway after a tanker crash and fuel spill, the Michigan Department of Transportation said in a series of tweets.

Motorists are advised to exit I-94 at Michigan or Ecorse and re-enter the freeway at Middlebelt.

Details of the crash , which occurred on Inkster Road at the border of Taylor and Romulus, aren’t immediately available, MDOT spokeswoman Diane Cross told the Detroit Free Press.

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Cross said all lanes should reopen by 4 p.m.

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