Truck pile-up injures 2 in Jiading

By Yang Lifei  |   2008-7-10  |     ONLINE EDITION

TWO people were seriously injured in a multi-vehicle collision in Jiading District early this morning, the Shanghai Evening Newspaper reported.

Three trucks were involved in the accident at an expressway exit at Jiasong Road N. at 4:30am. The driver and one passenger in a container truck were injured when their vehicle smashed into the back of another truck, the newspaper said.

Traffic police were still investigating the cause but the report blamed driver fatigue. A driver of one container truck, who was allegedly sleepy at the time, did not notice a truck parked near the expressway exit and smashed into it. Another container truck failed to brake in time and crashed into the back of the pile-up.

The driver of the parked truck was sleeping when his vehicle was hit, the report said.

``Three trucks were stopped by the roadside when I passed the scene at 4:45am,'' a witness surnamed Wang told the newspaper. ``Two people were trapped inside the cab of the third vehicle.''


Firemen from the Anting Fire Control Brigade told the newspaper that one of the injured was unconscious.