India, Dec. 14 -- Reduced visibility on the Eastern Peripheral Expressway (EPE) in Greater Noida on Saturday morning, led to a series of vehicular collisions, with a pile-up of at least 15 collisions starting around 8.30am, officials said. There was no casualty and the congestion was cleared within two hours, after visibility improved by 9.30am.

While there was a prediction for shallow fog in the region for the day, visibility sharply dipped to around 200 metres, from around midnight to 9 am, according to the India Meteorological Department's (IMD's) UP West unit.

"Around 8.30am on Saturday, when a vehicle was heading towards Palwal from the Dasna side on the EPE, the driver slowed down due to dense fog near Samadhipur village under the...