Authorities are responding to a 20-car pileup on Interstate 10 in Junction, Texas, according to a Saturday night Facebook post by the Junction Volunteer Fire Department and Kimble Rural Fire Department. 
Authorities are responding to a 20-car pileup on Interstate 10 in Junction, Texas, according to a Saturday night Facebook post by the Junction Volunteer Fire Department and Kimble Rural Fire Department. 
Junction is about 114 miles northwest of San Antonio and is located along I-10 in Kimble county. The Texas Department of Public Safety said the crash happened near mile marker 470, and the interstate in the area has been shut down. Officials are asking drivers to avoid the area and find an alternate route because there will be "significant delays."
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The Texas Department of Transportation is also reporting lane closures near the reported pileup on Interstate 10 and on U.S. 290. In a social media post, the state agency said all lanes from of I-10 are closed from mile marker 469 to mile marker 478. On highway 290, lanes are closed from mile marker 470 to mile marker 485.
Authorities did not provide any more details about the traffic incident or say if anyone was injured, but the Texas Hill Country is experiencing icy conditions from the strong winter storm affecting Texas.
The National Weather Service has predicted the region is going to experience a prolonged freeze, and officials have been warning drivers about the dangerous driving conditions because of ice accumulation on roads.
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It is currently 21 degrees in Junction. 
MySA will provide more information when available.
Peter Rasmussen is MySA’s Senior Regional Expansion Editor. He is from Pico Rivera, California, and earned a BA in print journalism from the University of Southern California in 2003. He has worked as an editor for The Monitor in the Rio Grande Valley, the San Antonio Express-News, and the Kansas City Star and has returned for a second stint with MySA.
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