'We had to run up the road': Witnesses tell how pileup started on Montreal's South Shore

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A group of American tourists who were at the front of a massive accident involving 200 cars south of Montreal narrowly escaped injury on Wednesday after blowing snow completely obscured their vision and cars began colliding all around them.

Last Updated Wednesday, February 19, 2020 9:07PM ESTsouth of Montreal narrowly escaped injury on Wednesday after blowing snow completely obscured their vision and cars began colliding all around them.

Jacob had a hard time explaining to officers where they were, because the New Yorkers weren't familiar with the landscape. But, after about 15 minutes, an ambulance arrived and parked in front of the tourists. The five Americans climbed out their windows and onto a snowbank. "It was straight out of a movie," Jack Sandberg, one of the tourists, said.

A police officer picked them up and drove them to the community centre where, later, shuttle buses brought 150 people, many of whom had been injured in the accident.

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