More Than 100 Vehicles in UK Pile-Up

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Published on Sep 5, 2013

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Hundreds of people were injured on Thursday when more than one hundred vehicles were involved in a pile-up in misty conditions on a bridge in the county of Kent, in the South East of England, according to local reports. (Sept. 5)

 

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100 car pileup leaves British police shocked

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A rescue worker works amongst the wreckage of some of the 100 vehicles involved in multiple collisions, which took place in dense fog during the morning rush hour, on the Sheppey Bridge in Kent, east of London, September 5, 2013. Eight people were seriously injured and dozens hurt in the multiple crashes. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett

Dozens of people were hurt, some seriously, when more than 100 cars were caught up in a huge pile-up on a bridge east of London during foggy conditions on Thursday morning.

The mangled wrecks of cars and lorries were strewn across the Sheppey Crossing as vehicles smashed into each other in a series of collisions at about 7.20 a.m. (0630 GMT).

"All we could hear was screeching, cars thudding into each other, lorries crashing," driver Martin Stammers told the BBC.

Firefighters cut six people from their vehicles and 35 were taken to hospital, eight with serious injuries.

Witnesses said there was thick fog at the Crossing, a road bridge which links the Isle of Sheppey in the mouth of the River Thames estuary to the mainland about 50 miles (80 km) east of London.

Police said they were still investigating the cause of the accident.