This post is taken from IZULAT blog repost here.
Japan
– According to the news recently last January 19,2021 Tuesday, another snow
related incident happens on Japan’s roads. A pile up of 130 vehicles collided
each other on the Tohoku Expressway leaving one dead and 10 injured because of
a heavy snowfall that cover the road or the expressway. Those people who are
involved in the incident were given food, water, and blankets to keep them
warm.
“A huge snowstorm has struck a highway in north
Japan, causing a 130-car pile-up, killing one person and injuring 10. The
storm blanketed a stretch of the Tohoku Expressway in Miyagi prefecture at
around noon (03:00 GMT) on Tuesday. Some 200 people have been caught up in the
pile-up and rescuers are currently at the scene, officials said.”(BBC)
“One person died and at least 10 were injured after
the vehicles collided. Authorities had already enforced a 50km (31mile) speed
limit on the road due to visibility. There was a maximum wind speed of about
100km/h (62mph) at the time of the incident, local weather officials said.
Those who were involved have been given drinking water and food, and have
been provided with blankets to keep warm.”(BBC)
In
another incident prior to it, according to the news, more than 1200 vehicles
and drivers were trapped and stranded on the snow filled road of Hokuriku Expressway
with six feet snow on the island of Honshu.
Last December 2020,
a similar incident also happens stranding 1000 vehicles on Kanetsu Expressway, according
to the news.
The main point:
Snow on roads incident happens one after the another on Japan’s expressways
stranding vehicles and people particularly according to the news on Kanetsu
Expressway, Hokuriku Expressway, and more recently on Tohoku Expressway.
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| image from Washington Post website |
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| image from Washington Post website |
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