Eyewitnesses of the Sheppey car crash this morning have described how vehicles 'ploughed into each other like a concertina'.
A 100-vehicle pile-up on a bridge in heavy fog left at least six people seriously injured and 200 suffering minor wounds in what witnesses described as 'carnage'.
No one is believed to have died in the crash on the new Sheppey crossing bridge in Kent. It started at around 7.15am and continued for 10 minutes as cars and lorries crashed into each other in visibility that was down to 20 yards.
One witness, who would not be named, told Kent Online: 'There was debris on our side of the road from the accident, then we saw the first part of the crash - there was cars, lorries, vans, ploughed into each other like a concertina...I've never anything like this before in my life.'
Witness Martin Stammers, 45, from Minster, said: 'It's horrific. I've never seen anything like it in my life.
'All you could hear was cars crashing. We got out of our car and it was eerily quiet with visibility down to just 20 yards.
'Then you would hear the screeching of brakes and then a thud. It was all you could hear for about 10 minutes - crash after crash after crash.
'The whole top of the bridge is full of mangled cars and lorries. There are cars with their roofs ripped off - one is five feet in the air. There were a lot of people trapped. (source)
