UAE | Traffic and Transport
Waving pedestrian helps man avoid crash
A long line of cars continued to crawl towards Dubai from Abu Dhabi more than six hours after the first crash was reported on the fog shrouded 'highway of death'.
- By Mahmood Saberi, Senior Reporter
- Published: 23:41 March 11, 2008
- Image Credit: Gulf News
- The location of the accident happened on Tuesday morning.
Dubai: A long line of cars continued to crawl towards Dubai from Abu Dhabi more than six hours after the first crash was reported on the fog shrouded 'highway of death'.
Ambulances and police cars came rushing from Abu Dhabi and went on the hard shoulder past the 20-kilometre line of cars moving slowly from Al Samha to Salih As Sidrah at noon on Tuesday. A helicopter hovered overhead.
Escape
It was midway between these small towns just on the border between the emirates where the disaster took place. The spot was at exit 399 to Al Ghantoot, a small township.
A Gulf News reader recalls his escape and said he saw a man waving his hands wildly at the side of the road. He was on the fast track and immediately turned right into the slow lane, and that is what saved him.
Website: Biggest story
When one of the biggest accidents in the UAE occurred on Tuesday morning, it turned into the biggest story in the history of the Gulf News website.
The site had more than 200,000 visitors, registered more than four million page views, and was on the receiving end of a fantastic reader response with dozens and dozens of pictures of the crash sent in and more than 500 comments and eyewitness accounts.
And it is due to this response from people who were there, on the scene, that our coverage of the accident was so comprehensive.
Because of these reader inputs, Gulf News was able to work in tandem with its reporters to keep everyone up to date on the latest news from the accident, bring you the best photographs to illustrate the sheer scale of what had happened and offer reactions to the crash.
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