From The Metro:
A pile-up involving 1,370 cars and lorries on a motorway in south-west China is believed to have been caused by a bout of very heavy fog.
Nobody was killed in the accident outside Chengdu, but at least ninety people were injured. The pile-up on a highway in Sichuan province was caused by visibility of less than five inches during a period of dense fog.
Emergency workers at the scene of the accident said that some cars landed on top of others during the crash. The first collision took place at 07:17 in the morning and the last reported collision happened at 14:22 in the afternoon several miles away.
The driver of one of the fleet of two hundred rescue trucks said: "Some cars flew up in the air, and landed on the top of other cars on top of other cars. It's dangerous back there. Oh look! There goes another one."
The accident caused traffic jams on the motorway that are expected to last for several weeks.
Wednesday, 15 December 2010
Fog blamed for 1,370 car pile-up in South-West China
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7 comments:
Only in China could you get those sort of numbers.
I've heard it was actually 13,700 cars, not 1,370
No, it was 137,000, and the viz was 5mm not inches. In fact the fog was so thick they just crashed into it.
makes the M25 problems we have seem like a non issue.
I heard it was 1,370,000 and visibility was down to 0.5 mm
I heard it was 13 cars and the fog was covering only 5% of the network.
That was in Chinese Pravda.
MW: In view of the divergence in the stats, one can but presume that this is a "fake china" story?
Or is it just a crock[ery] story?
You "Meissen" tell though!
How fast does a car have to be going to 'fly into the air' given 5 inches of visibility?
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