India, Sept. 17 -- About nine people escaped with minor bruises after a cement mixer truck allegedly lost its brakes and ploughed into seven cars and two motorcycles on the Gurugram-Faridabad road late Tuesday, leaving mangled vehicles strewn across the road and triggering a nearly four-kilometre traffic jam, police said on Wednesday.

The pile-up, which involved 11 vehicles, triggered a traffic jam stretching nearly four kilometres and left hundreds of commercial and private vehicles carrying commuters stranded for more than two hours, police said. The congestion began around 9.45pm and continued until midnight, traffic officials said. At least four of the injured people went to hospitals on their own after sustaining minor bruises in th...