Two people died and more than 80 were injured Thanksgiving morning in a pileup that involved about 140 vehicles on a foggy highway in Beaumont, Texas, according to the Associated Press.
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The crash took place at 8:45 a.m. Thursday on Interstate 10 about 80 miles east of Houston, and photos of the mess showed trucks and cars piled on top of each other, AP reported.
The victims who were killed were a man and a woman in a who were in a Chevy Suburban SUV that a tractor trailer landed on top of, according to AP.
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department in a press release said that 80 to 90 people were hospitalized, with about a dozen of them in serious to critical condition. There were 140 to 150 vehicles involved in the tragic incident.
The local sheriff told AP that the fog was so dense on Interstate 10 that initially his deputies didn’t even know that there were accidents.
There were actually accidents on both sides of the highway, with one crash leading to a chain reaction of other crashes, leavings cars and trucks piled on top of each other, AP reported.
Authorities and motorists who weren’t hurt both went through the wreckage to help find survivors, AP said.
Interstate 10 was closed for more than eight hours.