M5 crash: Fears 'more than 10 killed' - Democratic Underground

Bosonic

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Sat Nov-05-11 07:39 AM
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M5 crash: Fears 'more than 10 killed'

Source: BBC

It is feared more than 10 people have died in a 27-vehicle crash on the M5 near Taunton, Somerset.

More than 40 people were injured in the crash, near junction 25 northbound at about 20:30 GMT on Friday, which police said led to a "massive fireball".

The cause of the crash is not yet clear but there had been heavy rain in the area earlier and there was patchy fog.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-15603124

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alfredo

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Sat Nov-05-11 08:06 AM
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1. With the wet weather, leaf strewn roadways, such horrors will increase.

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Submariner

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Sat Nov-05-11 11:02 AM
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2. For a moment I thought this was a local accident

since Taunton and Somerset are just a few miles away across the Cape Cod Canal near the junction of I495 and route 25. I guess we borrowed more heavily than I thought from British town names.

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