(Changsha Comprehensive News) According to the Chinese police report, a highway in Changsha, Hunan Province, a severe traffic accident in the afternoon of 49 vehicles on Saturday (February 4), has killed 16 deaths and 66 injured injuries.Essence
According to Xinhua News Agency, the Hunan Provincial Expressway Traffic Police Department reported on Sunday (February 5) that the Xuguang Expressway section of Changshawang City, Hui City, Hunan Province, had five traffic accidents from 5 pm on Saturday.Some vehicles involved caught fire.The Xuguang Expressway is a highway between China connecting Xuchang City, Henan Province to Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province.
Preliminary investigations showed that there were five traffic accidents in about 10 minutes before and after, of which the accident caused seven people to die and involved seven vehicles.The three accidents died each, involving 11, 10, and nine units involving vehicles.Another accident did not cause death, involving 12 vehicles.
The accident caused 66 people to be injured. The wounded had been sent to the hospital for full treatment in time. Among them, eight of them were severely injured, and their livelihood signs were temporarily stable.
After the accident, rescue personnel of Hunan Provincial Public Security, Transportation, Emergency, Fire, Health and Health and other departments quickly rushed to the scene to link the two -level governments of Changsha City to actively carry out on -site search and rescue, wounded treatment, and traffic guidance.At present, the section of the incident has been resumed, and accident investigations and related after -related after the rescue work are underway.
The car and the car hit a group of vehicles to fire and spread
According to the Beijing News, the video and photos of the car accident provided by netizens show that a group is blocked on the high -speed road.Show, there are many firefighters, traffic police, police and medical staff on the scene to rescue.
A staff member of the Hunan Highway Group said that at that time, the long -speed high -speed truck spontaneously ignited, the scene was very chaotic, the traffic order was extremely poor, and the two roads were blocked.
The netizens at the scene said that at the time, many vehicles collided, and some cars had been flattened. People in the car were basically not dead. They were also caught fire next to them.The scene quickly arrived at the scene at the ambulance, fire trucks and police cars, but when it was around 6 o'clock, the scene was still confusing.
