A massive build-up of 134 cars during a snowstorm left one man dead and 17 injured in northern Japan on Tuesday, authorities said.
The crash, which took eight hours to unravel, also stranded about 200 people on Miyagi’s Tohoku Highway.
The crash occurred when the region was in the middle of a snowstorm carrying gusts of wind of up to 60 miles per hour and which should pour about two meters of snow into northern Japan, the l reported. Tokyo-based news agency Kyodo News.
The overcrowding was triggered by a truck that crashed into a car shortly before noon, local time, amid the low visibility of the storm.
The storm also forced traffic officials to close the East Japan Railway, Kyodo said.
Details of the death and the extent of the wounds were not immediately available.
With publishing cables
