Nearly 100 Vehicles Involved in Massive Pile-Up in Kazakhstan

The number of vehicles involved in the pile-up collision on Astana-Shchuchinsk road in Kazakhstan's Akmola region has risen from around 40 to nearly 100.

The police and KazAvtoJol specialists are working at the scene, The Caspian Post reports, citing Kazakh media.

According to KazAvtoJol, the mass pile-up with involvement of around 95 vehicles occurred due to non-compliance with speed limits and safe distance at 1:28pm on the 153rd kilometer of Astana-Shchuchinsk road near Zhanatalap village.

Following the improvement of the weather conditions and completion of road cleaning operations, the movement in direction of Shchuchinsk town continued under escort of the police department personnel and special vehicles of KazAvtoJol.