Thick fog on bridge connecting Incheon International Airport with Seoul causes deadly pileup Wednesday as 100 vehicles crash, killing two and injuring at least 65 more, officials say.
Firefighters try to search for survivors in damaged vehicles from a multiple collision that occurred in heavy fog Wednesday on the Seoul-bound lane of a bridge forming part of the main expressway linking Incheon airport, west of Seoul.
SEOUL, South Korea - Two people were killed and more than 60 were injured Wednesday after a pileup involving about 100 vehicles in foggy weather on a bridge near the Incheon International Airport, South Korean officials said.
At least 65 people were injured, seven of them seriously, and the number of the injured could increase, said Byeon Tae-u of the Incheon Fire and Safety Management Department.
Park Sang-yeoul, an official from the Incheon Seobu Police Station, said the damaged cars had been removed from the 14,400-foot cross-sea bridge on the highway from the airport to the capital Seoul.
He did not have the exact number of vehicles involved in the accident, but said it was about 100.
The crash occurred in the morning in a Seoul-bound lane and was likely aggravated by thick fog and icy road conditions, Byeon said. It was not immediately known what started the pileup.
Lee Gyeong-hoon, a 39-year-old driver whose car was involved in the crash, said he was driving slowly because the fog prevented him from seeing much more than 10 yards ahead.
"I saw the brake lights of the car in front of me turn on and I stopped abruptly," said Lee, whose car was hit from behind.
He was able to open the door and escape to the side.
The foggy weather delayed the departure of 18 flights and the arrival of seven flights at the airport during the morning, said airport spokesman Cho Sang-hyun.
South Korea experienced a similar accident in 2006 when a 29-car pileup in foggy weather at another cross-sea bridge left 11 people dead and more than 50 injured.
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