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I-96 closed for over three hours due to traffic jam

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KENT COUNTY, Mich. — Part of the I-96 freeway was shut down while crews respond to a traffic incident involving a mobile home.

I-96 is closed at Exit #46, near the overpass that allows traffic to take M-6.

Michigan Department of Transportation publicized the shutdown at 4:20 pm on Wednesday.

As for the cause of the incident, FOX 17 saw that a mobile home had been transported through a construction zone. Too wide for the construction zone, the mobile home had gotten jammed between a concrete barrier and the overpass to M-6.

MDOT announced at 8:25 pm that the freeway was open again.

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