Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers stayed busy Wednesday with several car accidents, including a spate of accidents at nearly the same time during Wednesday afternoon’s thunderstorm.

Dispatcher Gil Leblanc said four crashes involving six vehicles occurred within minutes of each other just after 5 p.m. Wednesday on U.S. 52 at County Road 1 in Perry Township.

Reports about the cause and results of those crashes are incomplete at this time. It is not known at this time if anyone was injured in any of those accidents.

Troopers could not confirm early today if the weather played a role in any of the crashes.

A thunderstorm did move through the Tri-State at approximately 4 p.m. dumping nearly a half- inch of rain and, in some places, nickel-sized hail, according to a report from the National Weather Service in Charleston, W.Va. Along with the precipitation came wind.

The NWS said gusts of 29 miles an hour were recorded at Tri-State Airport in Wayne County, W.Va.

Earlier in the day, troopers contended with a single- vehicle crash on Big Branch Road in Chesapeake. The report on that crash is also incomplete but the car involved reportedly left the roadway and rolled over, landing on its top.