The images are extremely spectacular. One person was killed in a violent pile-up involving more than 200 vehicles on a bridge in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou on Wednesday due to extremely foggy conditions, Chinese television channel CCTV reports.
extremely reduced visibility
According to photos and videos posted on social media, several cars and trucks collided and piled on top of each other.
The footage, broadcast on CCTV, shows a car collapsing in the middle of a pile of vehicles.
“It’s very scary. There are a lot of people here, I don’t think we can get off the bridge,” one person can be heard saying in a video broadcast.
Many motorists were injured and trapped in their vehicles. Eleven fire trucks and 66 rescuers were sent to the scene to help them, according to the Chinese channel.
Visibility in many areas was below 500 meters on Wednesday morning and even 200 meters in some areas, the weather service said. The police closed the bridge to all traffic.
Source: BFM TV
