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De-icer at center of Beltline crash

A spray-on road de-icer caused a crash that left westbound Beltline traffic tied up for more than an hour Wednesday morning, town of Madison police said.

A UW-Madison road safety researcher said Wednesday the question of de-icer causing cars to slip is “intriguing,” but to his knowledge, it hasn’t been studied. Similar crashes on a treated road three years ago in Dane County may soon spark a lawsuit.