A dust storm passes on a highway, the aftermath is only chaos and devastation

Monday, May 1 did not not been easy for the police off that Illinois highway. A huge pileup of cars took place on a portion of the highway involving a hundred vehicles, including smoking semi-trailers. The cause of this disaster worthy of the car stunts of Hollywood action films, a dust stormas reported by Paris Match the day after the incident. “About 30 commercial vehicles and 40 to 60 cars are involved. This includes two semi-trailer trucks that caught fire due to the accidents“, said the police.

The human toll is heavy. The police announced that a total of about thirty people were taken to hospital. The severity of their injuries ranges from mild to severe. THE vital diagnosis of some of them is engaged, specifies the article of the media. We also learn that the age of the injured varies from 2 to 80 years. This huge pile-up of cars crashing into each other caused the death of 6 peopleaccording to the Illinois police report.

3 kilometers of traffic jam in a thick cloud of dust

The highway connecting Saint-Louis (Missouri) and Chicago (Illinois) was blocked by stationary vehicles for about 3 kilometers on both sides of the road. Videos from the local press show the distressing images of a highway plunged into a thick cloud of dust where the wind is still blowing and where visibility is almost zero. We can see the head of a light vehicle stuck behind a large truck. Many cars have finished on the side, in the grass. This type of deadly dust storm is not an isolated case. Eight people have already lost their lives in the same type of Utah apocalyptic pileupin July 2021, recalls the Paris Match.