Mass automobile accidents of recent years

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Most traffic accidents happen due to the drivers’ disdain for the speed of the car during bad weather conditions. Mass collisions of cars, which we want to tell you today, happen precisely for this reason. We suggest you to remember 10 most high-profile road accidents in different countries, in which dozens of cars collided, writes aif.ru.

Mass automobile accidents of recent years

26 March 2013, Austria. Because of the ice that formed on the road, over one hundred cars collided. As a result, the road accident got one dead person and dozens of injured. The consequences of the accident were eliminated by 10 ambulances, 6 fire trucks and even a helicopter.

Mass automobile accidents of recent years

January 31, 2013, the United States. In this accident, three people were killed, and another 20 were injured. A tragic accident was preceded by heavy snowfall, icing of the road and a heavy wind. The cork was stretched for several tens of kilometers.

Mass automobile accidents of recent years

January 25, 2013, Canada. 80 cars collided in the province of Ontario due to heavy snowfall. Five people suffered, and the traffic jam after the accident was stretched for two kilometers.

Mass automobile accidents of recent years

November 22, 2012, the United States. Thanksgiving in the US state of Texas began with bad news – as a result of the massive traffic accident that happened on the highway near the city of Houston, more than 35 people were injured. In hospitals with burns of different degrees were about 90 people, two of them died.

Mass automobile accidents of recent years

December 1, 2011, the United States. In the accident, which involved 176 cars, one person was killed and 18 were injured. The cause of such a major accident was three separate collisions that occurred as a result of poor visibility on the road.

Mass automobile accidents of recent years

September 15, 2011, Brazil. This is one of the biggest accidents in the last decade. On the road called Rodovia dos Imigrantes three hundred cars collided. The cause of the accident, which took the life of one person, was a strong fog.

Mass automobile accidents of recent years

July 20, 2009, Germany. Police in Lower Saxony, on whose territory the accident happened, said that this is the biggest accident that ever happened here. 66 people were injured when several drivers lost control of their cars during a heavy rainfall.

Mass automobile accidents of recent years

March 20, 2008, the Czech Republic. In the Czech Republic near the town of Vysočina, because of the icing of the road, 231 cars collided. Many people were wounded, but three were in critical condition.

Mass automobile accidents of recent years

March 11, 2008, the United Arab Emirates. The morning of March 11 in Abu Dhabi began with terrible news – because of the intense fog 60 cars, buses and trucks collided. In the accident, 277 people were injured, three died. Later a few more people died in hospitals.

Mass automobile accidents of recent years

March 17, 2005, Finland. In an accident of 300 cars, three people died and 60 were injured. The tragedy happened at the entrance to the capital of the country Helsinki as a result of a sharp weather change. The rain, which was replaced by a snowstorm, within few hours turned the road into a slippery skating rink.



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