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Highway accident leaves 7 dead, 5 injured

A minor accident on a highway in Guangdong Province led to seven deaths and five injuries after more vehicles slammed into them on Monday, Xinhuanet.com reported yesterday.

A vehicle with five people bumped into the back of another vehicle on a highway in Guangzhou, the provincial capital. The collision was minor, but both drivers stopped their vehicles in a traffic lane and all 12 people in the vehicles got out to argue about who caused the accident, the report said.

A transport truck traveling at high speed the smashed into a car, leading to a five vehicle pile up that crashed into the people arguing about the first accident.

The report didn't break down the casualty total for each vehicle.

Meanwhile, three people died in a similar accident on Hubei Highway on February 7, Wuhan Morning News reported during the Spring Festival.

Traffic police advised people to move their vehicles to the side of the highway if possible to avoid such accidents in future.



 

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