February 18, 2022
At least four people were killed and more than 50 vehicles damaged January 9 in two pileups caused by foggy weather on opposite lanes along the highway between Behbahan and Ramhormoz in Khuzestan province. On one side of the highway, nine cars smashed into each other while on the other side, around 50 cars crashed, and three of them burst into flames, said the provincial highway police chief, Colonel Reza Dolatshahi. The Red Crescent Society said 33 people, including a pregnant woman, were injured in the pileups. The chief of the Highway Police later said not even one airbag in the cars deployed. An official of the Auto-makers Association said that was because the collisions were all rear-end impacts. Another Highway Police officer mocked that and asked how dozens of cars could collide only with their rear ends.