HOUGHTON COUNTY – Few details were available Friday morning on a multi-vehicle traffic crash on U.S. 41 near Airport Road Thursday afternoon. As many as eight vehicles were involved in the crash, but Sgt. Russell Larson of the Michigan State Police Calumet Post said he could not confirm that.

Troopers from the Michigan State Police Calumet Post were dispatched to the scene at approximately 3:35 p.m. Thursday. The crash resulted in both lanes of U.S. 41 being closed between Store Street, near the MSP post, in Osceola, and the Lake Annie Road, a distance of about nine miles.

“By the time we got the highway closed,” Larson said, “it was at least an hour after that, but the report hasn’t been completed yet.”

Larson said the highway remained closed for about five hours.

One person was transported to a local hospital for injuries sustained in the crash, and was treated and released.

“It was a bit of a mess out there yesterday and the priority at the time was to get people off the roads,” Larson Friday morning.

The Daily Mining Gazette will provide more details as they become available.