More than 100 cars were involved in a massive ten-minute pile-up after visibility fell to just a few feet during rush hour yesterday morning.
Eight people were seriously injured and 200 walking wounded needed treatment at the scene. Police said it was ‘truly miraculous’ that nobody died in the biggest ever accident caused by fog on British roads.
Motorists described their ‘blind terror’ in the seemingly endless succession of screeching tyres, crunching metal and smashing glass as cars, lorries and vans ploughed into each other and crumpled like concertinas.
Foggy: According to police around 100 vehicles
were involved in the pile-up on a bridge in heavy fog, leaving at least
eight people seriously injured
Astonishing accident: At the scene on the
Sheppey bridge in Kent, motorists caught up in the accident milled
around in hot sunshine waiting to get their cars back
From above: Those caught up in crashes were
looked after by the emergency services and voluntary organisations who
attended, such as the British Red Cross
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