YPSILANTI TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- The Wednesday morning commute was slow but overall, fairly smooth after metrot Detroit saw 6-10 inches of snow.

As of 9:00 a.m., most major area freeways were fairly cleared, but speeds didn't reach higher than 45 mph.

Side streets and neighborhoods were still snow coveraged and slow moving.

Road crews are moving onto the secondary roads as the morning continues to help as the cleanup continues.

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One of the few crashes occurred on northbound Interstate 75 at 9 Mile Road, and snarled traffic down to one lane just before 5 a.m. It cleared just after 6 a.m.

The slow morning commute came after snow began piling up Tuesday throughout the afternoon and evening.

The snowfall caused hundreds of fender-benders and even a fatal crash on Tuesday.

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AAA Michigan told Local 4 that by late Tuesday afternoon, it had already serviced more than 1,700 weather-related calls, even though more than 220 tri-county ice trucks are continually salting the roads.

"We've got a lot of spinouts, cars in ditches and crashes," spokeswoman Nancy Cain said. "Calls are continuing to come in. It's very busy and looking to stay that way."

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AATA bus driver of 35 years Robert Curtis said he saw more than a dozen accidents as he drove around Tuesday.

"A woman pulled besides me and stopped, and a car came up behind her hit her from behind," said Curtis.

A fatal crash Tuesday morning involving two vehicles on Interstate 94 had the eastbound lanes of the freeway closed at Michigan Avenue in Ypsilanti for several hours.

Traffic was being diverted off the freeway at Michigan Avenue before the freeway was reopened around 2:40 p.m.

"I had to call in and I was late, so I was on the road probably about 25 minutes longer," said teacher Rebecca Whitean of Manchester after waiting in the crash traffic.

Police said a 35-year-old Ypsilanti woman died when her vehicle was T-boned by a garbage truck, and then her vehicle struck the median. Police have not released any other information on the victim.

In Wayne County, salt trucks and plows were expected to remain on the roads through the end of the storm Wednesday, said Mike Rogers, director of Wayne County's Public Services Roads Division in southeast Michigan.

"We're trying to make sure we get these roads passable as quickly as possible," Rogers said. "Once the storm is ending, we'll move the snow off the shoulders."

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