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A truck full of “hazardous liquid” was included.

A "super fog" in Louisiana has caused a multi-car pileup on Interstate 55 near New Orleans, Louisiana, after severely lowering visibility, according to police. A long stretch of Interstate 55, a 24-mile-long highway over Lake Pontchartrain near New Orleans, is expected to be closed "for the foreseeable future," police said. Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards confirmed the accident in a statement Monday.

A thick veil of "super fog" descended upon the vibrant city of New Orleans on Monday, shrouding it in an otherworldly mist that led to a chain of catastrophic car crashes, claiming seven lives and leaving more than 25 individuals injured. This surreal meteorological event unfolded on the iconic Interstate 55, situated just northwest of the city, near the break of dawn on a fateful Monday morning.

A large cloud of fog enveloping a highway led to at least 158 car crashes and seven deaths in the southern US state of Louisiana, authorities said Monday.

Fog and smoke from a marsh fire produced a super fog that led to at least seven deaths in a traffic pileup of more than 150 vehicles near New Orleans on I-55.