Deadly Pileups

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  6 Dead In Icy Texas Pileup As Frigid Weather Blankets Much Of US

  Winter weather battered the United States from coast to coast on Thursday as a series of storms expected to last for days mixed with an Arctic air mass to bring snow and freezing rain as far south as Texas, where six people died in a multi-vehicle pileup.

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  Official In China City Hit By Deadly Landslide Kills Himself

  Police in southern China say a local government official has killed himself, a week after a landslide from a pileup of construction waste in his city left scores missing and presumed dead.

• Three dead after a 50-car pileup on snowy US highway

  Pileups on an Ohio highway involving at least 50 vehicles killed three people on Wednesday as a late-winter storm swept through the Midwest and the Northeast.

• Winter storm leaves 25 dead in US East Coast, more than 2,100 flights cancelled

  A winter storm that brought snow and ice to the US East Coast moved off-shore today, leaving at least 25 people dead and hundreds of thousands without power and causing a large pileup in Pennsylvania that injured 30 people.

• One dead in Austrian pileup with up to 100 vehicles

  A fire department official says up to 100 vehicles have collided on a snow-slicked stretch of an Austrian highway, leaving one person dead.

• Three dead in fiery highway crash in Georgia: authorities

  More than two dozen cars, pickup trucks and tractor-trailers collided on Wednesday morning in a fiery pileup on a foggy Georgia interstate, killing at least three people and sending nine others to a hospital, officials said.

• One dead, 30 injured in pile up of 20 cars on Yamuna Expressway

  A 2-year-old girl was killed and 30 persons were injured in a massive pile-up of 20 vehicles on Yamuna Expressway near Bhaipur in Jewar area, 24 km from Greater Noida, in dense fog this morning, police said.

• Two children, one adult die in Detroit freeway pileups

  Blinding snow squalls, high winds and a slick highway led to a mile-long series of crashes in Detroit that left at least three people dead, including two children, and 20 more injured.

• China: 11 dead in 19 car pile-up

  At least 11 people have died and 19 others are injured in a series of highway pileups in a fog-shrouded Chinese province.

• Florida to release report on the deadly Interstate pileup

  The Florida Highway Patrol is releasing a report on the fog- and smoke-shrouded Interstate 75 crash that killed 11 people in January. The inspector general's report on whether state troopers erred when they reopened the highway shortly before the massive pileup is due out Thursday.

• An SMS lead to deadly traffic pileup

  A 19-year-old driver was texting just before his pickup truck, two school buses and a tractor truck collided in a deadly pileup on an interstate highway in Missouri last year, the National Transportation Safety Board said on Monday.

• 52 Car pile-up on Autobahn kills 3 people

  Police say a 52-vehicle pileup on a highway in northwestern Germany has left three people dead and 35 injured. The accident happened on Friday evening on the A31 autobahn near the town of Gronau on the border with the Netherlands.