WATCH: Shocking scale of deadly 70-car motorway pileup revealed in heavy snow chaos
TERRIFYING video footage shows dozens of cars and a number of lorries involved in a horrific crash as heavy snow chaos on a busy motorway leaving one driver dead, emergency services declared.
HORRIFIC 70-car pileup after heavy snow falls in Iowa
Cars, vans and lorries are seen colliding as they frantically try to avoid ploughing into each other on the three-lane highway.
A bus driver was killed in the pile-up and a further five people were taken to hospital for treatment.
A total of eight people died in crashes across the state of Iowa on Monday 185 crashes across the state.
Vehicles are seen turning off the road onto snow-covered grassland as they desperately try to avoid high-speed collisions.
Drivers stood at the side of the road after felling their cars anticipating further collisions as the fast traffic continues to arrive.
The pile-up appears to cover around 100 yards of a road as the unlucky motorists continue to arrive after the original crash.
Vehicles look to be struggling to stop on the snowy surface as they skid into their fellow road users.
The full length of the video released was 26 minutes communicating the true scale of the incident.
More than 70 vehicles were involved in the crash on I-35.
Video of the crash comes after UK forecasters warned of more snow on the way and predicted travel chaos.
Forecaster Susan Powell said Britain faces another day of freezing temperatures as a new snow weather front closes in on the country.
She said: "It’s a cold start for what is going to be a cold day. Ice just about possible anywhere. Do take care if you are heading on to the roads.
"For the South, East of England and Eastern England a cold day but largely fine. There should even be some sunshine but there will be some snow showers, particularly pushing into the North of Norfolk, Lincolnshire and we could see a few centimetres accumulating here.
"For the Midlands and the South-West of England, a fine start with some clouds giving perhaps the odd flake of snow over the next couple of hours but nothing too significant."
Weather forecasters have warned that the bitter weather is expected to grip Britain for the remainder of this week and could even stay until next week.
The bone-chilling temperatures nearly fell to below -15C Monday night as the UK faced the coldest night in six years and parts of Britain were blanketed in snow.
The BBC forecaster told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "I think we should see a little bit of brightness out through the first half of the day although a thicker cloud is already coming in to Cornwall and North Devon and that’s a weather front that will start to bring some snow, increasingly so through the afternoon across the South-West of England and the Midlands.
"Some heavier snow showers packing into the South-West of England through this evening. For Wales and the whole of Northern England, the front will arrive this morning, that’s going to mean snow through the rush hour. One to three centimetres at lower levels, four to seven across the hills.
"Nothing too dramatic but obviously reduced visibilities and that could cause some disruption."