Scary! A 130-vehicle pileup on Interstate 35 in Fort Worth, Texas, killed at least six people and sent 65 others to the hospital at around 6 a.m. EST (7 p.m. Taiwan Time on the 11th).
According to the Associated Press, Fort Worth Fire Chief Jim Davis said many people were trapped in their cars and needed hydraulic tools to get them out. Many of those trapped were health care workers, as the chain of crashes occurred during hospital shift rotations.
Fort Worth Police Chief Neil Noakes (Neil Noakes) revealed that there were also three police officers who were preparing to come to work when they were involved in the chain of collisions, and one officer was injured while supporting the scene, but fortunately all were okay and have been released from the hospital.
The preliminary judgment of the cause of the accident and severe weather-related, due to the U.S.-Canada border polar vortex, resulting in abnormally cold air south into the region east of the Rocky Mountains, causing freezing rain, sleet and other phenomena, in addition to Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana have appeared in disaster situations.
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