Two thirds of trucks in last week’s accident were going over speed limit

The Czech Transport Ministry has announced that around two-thirds of the trucks involved in last week’s notorious crash along the D1 highway were exceeding the 80kmph speed limit. Around ten minutes prior to the pileup, a number of sensors along the D1 motorway, which connects the cities of Prague and Brno, detected that 65% of trucks were exceeding the speed limit, despite icy conditions and limited visibility. Around thirty people were injured in last Thursday’s accident in which more than a hundred cars slammed into each other with costs estimated to run into tens of millions of crowns.