Just heard it on the news specifically nbc 4. Hope it's not a repost. Searched for "beach" and "40" and "accident." WOW just looked at the pictures and it's MESSY!!!!
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WTF?! They keep changing the story... First it was 40 cars, then 100 cars, then 200 cars?!?!
"Dozens injured as nearly 200 cars collide on fog-bound LA-area freeway
Sunday November 03, 2002
By PAUL WILBORN
Associated Press Writer
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) Nearly 200 cars and big-rig trucks collided on the fogbound Long Beach Freeway early Sunday, injuring dozens of people, nine critically, and closing the highway for hours.
``The fog was thick and all you saw on the horizon was the cars piled up in both directions,'' driver Rob Zeigler told KABC-TV. He said his car was pushed into the pile but he wasn't seriously injured.
``You could hear all the crashing and the banging. You could feel your car moving, knowing that other cars are still hitting you,'' he said.
Some cars were buried under others, and some of the injured had to be cut from their vehicles.
Dozens of cars, vans and big-rig trucks could be seen tangled together and littering both sides of the freeway about 25 miles south of Los Angeles.
There were two separate accident sites on the freeway, located hundreds of yards apart.
CHP Officer Joseph Pace said there were 194 vehicles involved, including seven or eight big-rig trucks.
Forty-one people were injured, nine of them critically, he said. The most seriously injured were taken to local hospitals.
Early morning fog may have contributed to the pileups, which started just before 7 a.m., California Highway Patrol Officer Douglas Kondo said.
Driver Manny Manuelos said he had slowed as a big-rig truck smashed through the center divider but cars came up behind him at 25 to 35 mph.
``I see vehicles coming in back of me ... I'm just, like, sitting there and I go, 'oh, here it comes.``'"
Now on CNN.com with a crappy small pic
It's amazing that no deaths were mentioned... yet...?
link1
WTF?! They keep changing the story... First it was 40 cars, then 100 cars, then 200 cars?!?!
"Dozens injured as nearly 200 cars collide on fog-bound LA-area freeway
Sunday November 03, 2002
By PAUL WILBORN
Associated Press Writer
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) Nearly 200 cars and big-rig trucks collided on the fogbound Long Beach Freeway early Sunday, injuring dozens of people, nine critically, and closing the highway for hours.
``The fog was thick and all you saw on the horizon was the cars piled up in both directions,'' driver Rob Zeigler told KABC-TV. He said his car was pushed into the pile but he wasn't seriously injured.
``You could hear all the crashing and the banging. You could feel your car moving, knowing that other cars are still hitting you,'' he said.
Some cars were buried under others, and some of the injured had to be cut from their vehicles.
Dozens of cars, vans and big-rig trucks could be seen tangled together and littering both sides of the freeway about 25 miles south of Los Angeles.
There were two separate accident sites on the freeway, located hundreds of yards apart.
CHP Officer Joseph Pace said there were 194 vehicles involved, including seven or eight big-rig trucks.
Forty-one people were injured, nine of them critically, he said. The most seriously injured were taken to local hospitals.
Early morning fog may have contributed to the pileups, which started just before 7 a.m., California Highway Patrol Officer Douglas Kondo said.
Driver Manny Manuelos said he had slowed as a big-rig truck smashed through the center divider but cars came up behind him at 25 to 35 mph.
``I see vehicles coming in back of me ... I'm just, like, sitting there and I go, 'oh, here it comes.``'"
Now on CNN.com with a crappy small pic
It's amazing that no deaths were mentioned... yet...?
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