MAKKAH: Four people were killed and 11 others injured in an accident involving nine vehicles along the Jeddah-Makkah Expressway on Thursday.
A highway police officer told Arab News that the pile-up occurred when a Jeddah-bound truck flipped over and collided with cars on its path and then blocking traffic on both sides of the road.
“Four cars were completed destroyed following the crash,” the officer said, adding that the truck had fallen over a Mercedes Benz car. At least four more cars were damaged in the collision.
The truck ended up horizontal on the either side of the divider, blocking the busy road for more than two hours.
Eyewitnesses said the accident stopped all traffic from Sitteen Street of Makkah to Shumaisi on the one side and from Bahrah to Shumaisi on the other side.
Apart from Civil Defense and Red Crescent, an air ambulance plane took part in the rescue operation. The injured were taken to hospital on Red Crescent vans with difficulty because of overcrowded roads.
