Two people have been killed and more than 60 injured in a crash involving about 100 vehicles in foggy weather on a bridge near South Korea’s Incheon International Airport.
Damaged vehicles are seen on Yeongjong Bridge after the cars crashed into one another. Photograph: Reuters
The multiple collision on Wednesday occurred in heavy fog on the Seoul-bound lane of a bridge that forms part of the main expressway linking Incheon airport with the capital.
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A policeman examines a vehicle, which was involved in the pile-up . Photograph: Reuters
The pile-up appeared to have been started when a limousine ran into the back of a car, an Incheon police station spokesman said.
“More than 100 vehicles were involved,” he said, adding that the foggy conditions meant drivers could only see 15 metres in front of them.
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Glass shards and other wreckage lie on the road after the cars were involved in a pile-up. Photograph: Reuters
TV footage showed emergency rescue workers trying to access the mass of twisted and crumpled wrecks on the fog-covered bridge.
The fog delayed the departure of 18 flights and the arrival of seven flights during the morning, airport spokesman Cho Sang-hyun said.
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Firefighters rescue an injured man from a damaged vehicle . Photograph: Reuters
South Korea experienced a similar accident in 2006 when a 29-car pile-up in foggy weather at another bridge left 11 people dead and more than 50 injured.
Worst pile-ups in history:
1) In October 1991, one person died and another 64 were injured when 150 cars piled-up owing to fog on the A15 Motorway near Ochten, Netherlands.
2) 2 people died and another 90 were injured when 200 cars were involved in a crash on the Interstate 10 in Mobile, Alabama, United States in March 1995.
3) Back in November 2002, 216 vehicles were involved in a pile-up in Los Angeles, California.
4) Dozens of people were injured, 10 critically, when 259 vehicles were involved in a pile-up due to heavy rain on the German Autobahn A2 near Braunschweig in Lower Saxony in 2009.
5) In January 2015, nearly 200 vehicles, including 76 semi trucks, were involved in a pileup on Interstate 94 near Galesburg, Michigan, amidst a heavy snowstorm that brought nearly a foot of snow to the area. One of the trucks was carrying a load of fireworks, which caught fire and exploded, injuring two firefighters. The only fatality was a 57-year-old truck driver from Quebec, Canada.