Major Car Pile-Up in Abu Dhabi - Dubai Highway

One killed after massive car pile-up on Abu Dhabi-Dubai highway

• By Binsal Abdul Kader, Staff Reporter
• Published: 15:25 April 2, 2011

Abu Dhabi: One person died and more than 60 people were injured in a massive car pile-up involving 127 vehicles on the Dubai-Abu Dhabi highway early Saturday, according to police. 

The accident took place between Sahama and Ghantoot on the Dubai-Abu Dhabi highway around 8am, according to Abu Dhabi police. Motorists and eyewitnesses said heavy morning fog and speeding could be the key reasons for the accidents. Nine of the injured are in critical condition, the official spokesperson of SEHA (Abu Dhabi Health Services Company) told Gulf News.  

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According to a statement issued by Abu Dhabi police, 127 cars were involved in the pile-up that left one person of Asian nationality dead and 61 others injured. 

The directorate in the Abu Dhabi Police received a communication from the Operating Room at 7:59am that a traffic accident occurred on the main street in Al Samha, and police arrived at the site in five minutes. More than 100 police cars from the Abu Dhabi Police were on site, backed by 17 vehicles from the armed forces, Dubai police, civil defence and ambulances.

The police rescue team secured and removed the remains of the accident and re-routed traffic to normal within two hours, according to the statement. 

Police said the scene of the accident was two kilometres