Heavy fog caused an 18-vehicles pileup on an expressway in east
China's Anhui Province, killing five and injuring
eight, local traffic police said on Monday.
"Two trucks crashed into a bus at Jieshou toll station on an
expressway linking Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province and Luoyang in central
China's Henan Province. The other vehicles involved in
the accident then slammed into the first three vehicles," said Wu
Jinping, head of the city traffic police.
Visibility was less than 30 meters, police said.
One of the injured suffered serious injuries but is now out of
danger, said the local hospital.
The accident caused a traffic jam several kilometers long.
Police blamed the accident on the truck drivers who were driving
too fast in the heavy fog.
(Xinhua News Agency January 22, 2007)