2 dead, 26 injured in 67-vehicle expressway pileup northwest of Tokyo

A massive pileup involving 67 vehicles on Friday left two people dead and 26 others injured, five of them seriously, on an expressway in Gunma Prefecture northwest of Tokyo, police said.The pileup occurred on the outbound lane of the Kan-etsu Expressway in Minakami at around 7:30 p.m. after vehicles likely skidded on the icy surface as snow fell, according to the police. Twenty vehicles caught fire, taking more than seven hours to extinguish.The deadly sequence began when a truck crashed into another truck that had stopped on the road after a single-vehicle accident, triggering collisions s…READ FULL ARTICLE