Seven people were killed and four injured after a string of
pileups on a section of expressway in east China's Anhui Province
due to thick fog, traffic police said on Tuesday.
Eighty-two vehicles, mostly trucks, were involved in 36 separate
accidents early Tuesday morning on the Feidong county section of
the expressway linking Xuzhou City to the provincial capital of
Hefei.
The collisions resulted in a 10-kilometer-long traffic jam.
Dense fog that descended in the early hours of Tuesday reduced
visibility to less than 10 meters.
Rescuers are clearing away the wreckage and the section of the
road is expected to return to normal early on Wednesday.
(Xinhua News Agency January 9, 2008)