MASSIVE ACCIDENT: American emergency services are working to get an overview of the huge crash in southern Louisiana. Photo: Gerald Herbert / AP / NTB
Dense fog combined with smoke from nearby fires caused very poor visibility for motorists in the US state of Louisiana on Monday.
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It caused a huge traffic accident in which 158 vehicles were involved, the local police said in a statement on Tuesday night Norwegian time.
At least seven people have lost their lives in the accident, which happened on the I-55 highway in Louisiana on Monday morning local time. At least 25 people are injured, writes AP.
– It was “Boom”. “Boom”. All you heard was crashing for at least 30 minutes, 46-year-old Clarencia Patterson Reed told the newspaper The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate.
She ended up in the middle of the chaos of cars, she says. When she tried to stop, she was hit from behind and from the side by at least two other cars. Reed says that she managed to get out, but that the wife got stuck in the car and suffered injuries to her leg.
According to AP, the authorities have sent several school buses to the crash area to retrieve those involved.
Governor John Bel Edwards warns other motorists which will travel on the roads in the state, and at the same time asks people to register as blood donors after the accident.
– The combination of smoke from forest fires and dense fog is dangerous, and I would encourage everyone who lives in the affected areas to be very careful when they go out to travel, he writes on X, formerly Twitter.
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Published: 24.10.23 at 03:39
Updated: 24.10.23 at 03:56
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