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A multiple-vehicle collision (colloquially known as a pileup or multi-car collision), [1] is a road traffic collision involving many vehicles. Generally occurring on high-capacity and high-speed routes such as freeways , they are one of the deadliest forms of traffic collisions.
High traffic volume and adverse weather conditions make fatal pile-ups more likely. More fatal pile-ups happen between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. than any other single hour, according to FARS data, but the ...
The final multi-vehicle collision along this stretch before the 1990 collision occurred on April 15, 1979. [5] This collision involved 18 vehicles, and resulted in 3 deaths and 14 injuries. Both of these collisions were investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which concluded that the differing reactions of drivers to ...
PORTLAND, Ore. – Slick roads and whiteout conditions caused by a winter storm led to a multi-vehicle pile-up involving more than 20 cars, trucks and semi-trucks in northwest Oregon on Thursday ...
A fiery pileup inside a tunnel on Interstate 80 in Wyoming left at least two dead with five others injured late Friday morning. Fire and smoke billowed from the tunnel as people ran for safety.
In a period of 19 seconds, 51 vehicles became involved in a pile-up. Car fuel exploded along with the highly combustible material being carried in one of the vans (possibly deodorant) and the resultant series of explosions closed the carriageway for four days as the charred wrecks were removed and the road surface replaced.
A dense “superfog” in Louisiana caused one massive multi-car pile-up and dozens of other crashes that killed at least seven motorists and injured scores of others.. Officials say that the ...
A multi-car pileup backed up traffic on southbound Highway 101 in Grover Beach on Tuesday afternoon. The crash occurred around 4:16 p.m. near the Grand Avenue off-ramp, according to the CHP ...