The death toll in Sunday's multi-vehicle pile-up on the
Shanghai-Kunming freeway has risen to 11 following the death of a
seriously injured passenger, said sources from the General
Detachment of Jiangxi Provincial Traffic Police.
The 82-vehicle pile-up occurred on Sunday in heavy fog on the
Shanghai-Kunming Freeway inside Zhangshu, a city in central Jiangxi Province. Ten people died at the
scene, 40 others were injured.
The highway between Nanchang, capital of Jiangxi, and Zhangshu,
another city in the province, was closed to traffic until
Monday.
Tens of millions of people are traveling by road, air and sea to
get home for the beginning of Spring Festival which begins with the
celebration of Lunar New Year's Eve on Feb. 17.
(Xinhua New Agency February 13, 2007)