CHP Officer Adrian Gonzalez, according to SFGATE, said that arriving units “found carnage out there,” and that cars and trucks were “turned over and up on each other, under each other.”
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Images of the crash, which prompted a six-hour closure of north and southbound lanes, showed several big rigs involved in the pile-up and other vehicles sustaining severe damage that left some of them looking unrecognizable.
It’s reminds me of those Blues Brothers scenes where the police vehicles just keep on piling up.
Accidents when foggy/snowy/… happen everywhere but I’ve never heard of these big pileups anywhere outside of the US. Really makes me wonder what’s going on in their heads when conditions are bad.