A massive pileup of 134 cars during a snowfall left one man dead and 17 injured in northern Japan on Tuesday, officials said.
The accident – which took eight hours to eliminate – also left some 200 people stranded on the Tohoku Expressway in Miyagi.
The accident happened when the region was in the midst of a blizzard that took gusts of up to 60 miles an hour and is expected to shed almost two inches of snow in northern Japan, Kyodo News reported.
The pile-up was caused by a truck hitting a passenger car just before noon, local time, amid poor visibility in the storm.
The storm also forced traffic officials to close the East Japan Railway, Kyodo said.
Details of the dead man and the extent of his injuries were not immediately available.
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