|
16 die in expressway collision in eastern China
2009-09-19
BEIJING - At least 16 people died and 14 were injured Saturday in southeastern China after a truck hit a road maintenance vehicle from behind, sending it off a bridge, police and a news report said. The maintenance vehicle was carrying 25 people when it was hit on an expressway in Jiangxi's Suichuan county, the official Xinhua News Agency said. All the dead were maintenance workers, Xinhua said. The accident also caused a pileup of five vehicles, it said. Fourteen people died on the scene and two died at a hospital, a woman from the Jiangxi provincial traffic police said. She did not give her name. Xinhua said rescue work was under way and all the injured were being treated in hospitals. It said the maintenance vehicle belonged to the highway administration of the Jiangxi Communications Department, and the truck was from central Henan province.
| 
