One person died on Wednesday when more than 200 vehicles were involved in a pile-up on a bridge in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou amid dense fog, rescuers and state broadcaster CCTV reported.
Cars and trucks could be seen crushed and piled on top of each other on the Zhengxin Huanghe Bridge in pictures and videos posted on social media. A car was brought down in the middle of a pile in an image taken from CCTV footage.
"This is too scary. Full of people here, I don't think we can get off the bridge," one person can be heard saying in a video clip. Many of the injured were trapped in their vehicles and the fire department sent 11 fire trucks and 66 fire rescue personnel to help, state media reported.
Visibility in many areas was below 500 meters on Wednesday morning and dipped to 200 meters at times, the weather service said. Rescuers said more than 200 vehicles collided with each other, media reported.
CCTV reported that cars traveling in both directions over the bridge, a major crossing of the Yellow River, were involved in numerous accidents. Police later closed the bridge to all traffic.
