Freeway pile-up kills 5, injures 2 in E. China
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-08-01 15:37 HEFEI -- A road accident
involving three vehicles has left five people dead and two injured in east
China's Anhui Province, local authorities said on Wednesday.
The accident took place in the early morning on Tuesday on an expressway near
the provincial capital of Hefei, when a tanker collided into a truck which was
preparing for a tyre change in an emergency parking strip. Another parked truck
was slammed into the guardrail by the impact of the initial collision, local
traffic police said.
Four people died at the scene, while another died in the ambulance on the way
to hospital, police said, and the two injured are stable.
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