2023-10-24 13:41:00
In a mass accident near the American city of New Orleans, at least seven people died on Monday, more than two dozen injured were treated in hospitals. The reason for the chain crash, in which more than 150 cars, including trucks, were stuck was dense fog in combination with smoke from fires in the surrounding wetlands, the AP agency reported today.
Cars began to pile up Monday morning on the Interstate 55 bridge in Louisiana, where visibility was extremely poor due to smoke-thickened fogt. The Louisiana police published aerial photos of the accident on their Facebook profile, which show charred wreckage of cars and a car that fell from a bridge into the water.
“It was boom, boom. You could still hear cars crashing.” one of the participants in the accident, Clarencia Patterson Reed, told the AP. She described seeing people standing on the highway waving at her to stop. When she did, two cars crashed into her car from behind and from the side.
Rescuers transported 25 people for treatment, some with serious injuries. According to the police, the number of victims may not be final, as the search for other people at the scene of the accident has not yet ended.
After the accident, there were queues of many kilometers in both directions on the highway, the police also closed some sections of other roads. The police are investigating the circumstances of the accident.
According to American meteorologists, she was on Monday extremely poor visibility caused by “superfog”. This was created by a combination of thick morning fog and smoke from numerous fires in the surrounding wetlands. Visibility improved in the afternoon, but the dangerous situation may repeat itself in the coming days, meteorologists warned.
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