100 car pile-up blocks Czech highway
Czech Car Pile Up
About 100 cars collided in a huge pileup in a heavy snowstorm in the Czech Republic today.
Six people were seriously injured and about 18 others suffered slight injuries in accidents on the road from the capital Prague to the south-eastern city of Brno, said regional governor Milos Vystrcil. "The worst situation is on the 100th kilometer in the direction towards Prague. There are about 100 cars (crashed)," he told Czech Television.
Up to 20,000 people are stuck in the pileup and the major traffic route between the Czech capital and the second largest city of Brno, located 200 kilometers (125 miles) southeast of Prague, have been blocked for hours.
Hundreds of other cars were stuck in the jam, which closed about 50km of a highway that has been increasingly congested by a growing number of trucks carrying goods between new factories in eastern Europe and western European markets.
Rescue workers are using two helicopters to help.
The national weather institute forecast more heavy snowing and high winds with speed of up to 108 km/h for tomorrow.
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