Around 158 cars involved in a traffic accident in the USA – at least seven people died – news Urix – Foreign news and documentaries

The superfog was caused by a combination of fire in nearby swamp areas, which created a lot of smoke, and dense fog. It led to very poor visibility on the roads in Louisiana and is the cause of the massive damage on Monday morning local time, according to the Louisiana State Police. In some places, visibility must have been close to zero. There is enormous damage after the mass collision. Photo: AP Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards confirmed the accident in a statement Monday. Seven deaths have been confirmed and over 25 people were taken to hospital with varying degrees of injuries. Some are also critically injured, according to Louisiana State Police. Further victims can be located when the accident scene has been completed, the police said. “The combination of fire smoke and dense fog is dangerous, and I would urge all Louisianans in affected areas to use extreme caution when traveling,” Edwards said in a statement. State troopers are working to notify families and investigate the exact cause of the crash, according to state police. Emergency services work on the scene after a mass collision at Manchac in Louisiana. Photo: AP Photos of the aftermath on the Interstate 55 highway near New Orleans show a long line of completely wrecked and burned out cars. The cars are crushed, stuck under each other, and some have been engulfed in flames. – It was “Boom”. “Boom”. All you heard was crashing for at least 30 minutes, says 46-year-old Clarencia Patterson Reed to The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate newspaper. She ended up in the middle of the chaos of cars. When she tried to stop, she was hit from behind and from the side by at least two cars. Reed says that she managed to get out, but that his wife was stuck in the car and suffered injuries to her leg, among other things. Emergency crews worked for hours to clear the road in both the southbound and northbound directions, writes ABC News. The National Weather Service (NWS) has for the past few days warned about the danger of driving in dense fog, without having reached everyone. The fog should have disappeared not long after the accident on Monday morning. All fog warnings have since been cancelled. Although the NWS does not rule out more “super fogs” in the future.



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