the biggest car crash in the Czech history / Nejvetsi dopravni nehoda v dejinach ceske historie

Yesterday’s massive car crash on on the Czech freeway D1 (Prague -Brno) involved 116 cars (!!) and left thousands of Czechs – some badly hurt – hanging in the snow storm for about 12 hours. The resulting traffic jam has created a colony of cars many miles long. The following traffic diversions created even more traffic jams – the whole situation took on a “snowball effect”. It got so bad that the Czech minister of Internal Affairs, Ivan Langer, was planning on using the Czech army to save the situation. But when he saw the “excellent cooperation of the Czech police and fireman “Langer changed his mind. Although this was the biggest car crash in the Czech history, only one person died so far (30 people got injured). The snow storm was messing with other European freeways as well: Austria, for example, experienced a crash involving 9 cars. The only  good news that came out of this misfortune is that the storm brought more snow that has been created throughout the whole winter season and the skying conditions are excellent.

CZ: Ctvrtecni snehova boure zavinila nejhorsi dopravni nehodu v dejinach ceske dopravni historie. V nehode se srazilo 116 aut a tisice lidi zustalo “viset” ve snehove bouri po dobu vice nez 12 hodin! Havarie tak zpusobila nekolika kilometrove kolony, kvuli kterym policie vytvorila zdlouhave objizdky, ktere pozdeji zpusobili i vice automobilovych zacep. Situace se v jednu dobu tak zhorsila, ze ministr vnitra Ivan Langer uvazoval o pouziti vojenske armady. Spoluprace hasicu a policie ale situaci zachranila, a Langer armadu odvolal. I kdyz toto byla doposavad nejvetsi aoutomobilova havarie v ceskych dejinach, pouze jedna osoba zemrela (30 jich bylo zraneno, z toho 6 lidi je tezce zraneno). Snehova vanice zpusobila vazne dopravni nehody po cele Evrope; v Rakousku zpusobila havarii 9-ti aut. Jedina dobra zprava je, ze na horach napadlo vice snehu nez za celou zimni sezonu, lyzarske podminky jsou tedy vyborne.

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