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| - Fact Check: Huge accident in Texas on New Year? Nope, 2021 clip goes viral
This video is from February 11, 2021, when a chain collision on an icy roadway in Fort Worth, Texas, claimed six lives.
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India Today Fact Check
This video is from February 11, 2021, when a chain collision on an icy roadway in Fort Worth, Texas, claimed six lives.
Multiple cars and trucks slammed into one another, unable to stop, as a man looked on in a scary video going viral on social media. Those sharing it claimed that this huge accident happened in Fort Worth, a city in Texas, on January 1, 2025. The text inside the video read: “Absolutely crazy footage from the Fort Worth, Texas pileup. January 1-2025.”
One person shared the video on X writing, “Wow this is scary! Happened Jan 1st in Fort Worth, Texas. Huge car pile-up!” Its archive can be seen here. One such Instagram Reel had garnered more than 23 million views at the time of writing this article.
India Today Fact Check, however, found that this video is from February 11, 2021, when a chain collision on an icy roadway in Fort Worth, Texas, claimed six lives.
Our Probe
Reverse searching keyframes from the viral video led us to a compilation of this accident’s footage, uploaded on a YouTube channel in September 2024. The description stated that this incident took place on February 11, 2021, in Fort Worth, Texas.
Further searches led us to an ABC News report dated February 12, 2021. It stated that at least six people died and 65 were injured in a massive accident in Fort Worth, Texas. At least 133 vehicles were involved in this multi-vehicle crash on the I-35 highway.
The toll lanes of the highway where the crash took place reportedly remained closed throughout the day of the accident and overnight, as firefighters worked to clear the damaged vehicles from the area. Quoting Fort Worth police, the report added that freezing rain had made the roads slippery and accumulated ice, causing the accident.
On January 18, 2023, the National Transportation Safety Board released a comprehensive report about this accident which noted that before the accident, the area received 36 consecutive hours of below-freezing temperatures. The two southbound toll lanes in the vicinity of the crash were pretreated to prevent icing. However, freezing rain and mist led to a massive crash on the highway.
In February 2021, the United States witnessed one of the worst cold snaps in history and Texas was one of the worst-hit US states that saw freezing weather and blackouts. President Joe Biden at the time declared an emergency in Texas due to the severe winter storm which began on February 11, 2021 — the day of the accident. Texas state records show that 246 people died due to the February 2021 winter storm.
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