Slippery roads and poor visibility caused by a winter storm over the weekend appear to be responsible for a multi-car pile-up on the Bronx River Parkway by the Woodlawn/Norwood border that injured eight people, including one seriously. The afternoon incident ranks as the most injury-related car accident than at any point in 2019.

Police say that at just after 1:30 p.m. on Jan. 18, police were flooded with calls of a crash in the southbound side of the Bronx River Parkway, between East 233 Street and East Gun Hill Road. The NYPD reported 15 cars were involved, but one local news crew had video of their count, that they put at 20. The parkway was back open by 7 p.m. EMS reported eight people were transported to area hospitals, including one victim reported in serious condition.

Police, fire, and paramedics identified, treated and removed those aided as people kept warm in their cars or walked around the closed highway as they waited hours for tow trucks to remove them.

Two victims of the crash were seen coming together and hugging in the middle of the shutdown southbound lane, before apparently walking over to their mangled car, with the bumper hanging off the vehicle.

City records show the Bronx side of the Bronx River Parkway, which also stretches into Westchester County, was the scene of 97 car accidents in 2019, including an accident that resulted in six injuries on Aug. 14, 2019, the most injuries for any car accident on the parkway that year. Speed was to blame for that incident.

According to the National Weather Service, only one-inch of snow fell in the Bronx, but visibility at the time of the crash was reduced to 1/4 mile.

Brandon DeShields, a driver, told WCBS-TV, “I switched lanes, someone behind me ran into the back of my car and it caused me to slide and hit another car.”

Additional reporting by David Cruz.