7 cars collided on Trung Luong - My Thuan highway

At around 4 p.m., a 7-seat car traveling on the highway through Cai Lay district suddenly collided with a 29-seat passenger bus in front of it. Due to the large number of vehicles and the short distance, the two 4-seat cars, the 16-seat passenger bus, the shrimp truck, and the sleeper bus behind continued to collide, causing a series of collisions.

After the accident, the cars were blocking the entire lane number 1 (near the median strip), the front and rear of the cars were crumpled, and many pieces of glass were scattered on the road. The front of the sleeper bus was deformed. Two people were injured, and rescuers had to break the door to take the trapped sleeper bus driver to the emergency room.

At the time of the incident, there were many vehicles returning to Ho Chi Minh City from the Western provinces after the Tet holiday, causing a 10km traffic jam on the highway. Many passengers climbed over the highway fence to get on a residential road to catch another car. At around 8pm, the traffic jam was still occurring, and the traffic police tried to clear the traffic jam.

Trung Luong - My Thuan Expressway is 51 km long, 16 m wide, 4 lanes, with a total investment of more than 12,000 billion VND, and will be put into operation from April 2022. The average traffic volume on the route is currently 22,000-23,000 vehicles per day. The traffic volume is high, the route does not have an emergency lane but only stops, so accidents often occur. In the past year, the expressway recorded over 7.2 million vehicles passing through, more than 2,800 incidents, including about 100 car collisions.

Nam An