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These are the dramatic 999 calls made by terrified drivers and passengers after more than 130 vehicles were involved in the UK's worst road crash in 16 years.

Hundreds of people were injured after dozens of cars , lorries and motorbikes smashed into each other on the Sheppey crossing in Kent in September 2013.

Incredibly, no-one was killed in the high-speed pile-up, but at least 35 people were hospitalised and others had to be cut out of their vehicles by firefighters.

Now, frantic audio recordings have emerged showing the fear felt by victims and witnesses as they alerted the emergency services to the major incident.

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In the newly-released recordings, unveiled as part of a TV documentary about the crash, one male driver can be heard describing the pile-up as 'a wreck'.

In a panicky voice, he tells the dispatcher: "Oh my god, there's somebody trapped in a car that's been squashed by a jeep."

He pauses, before adding: "That's in between two lorries."

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In a separate recording, a woman watching the A249 crash unfold says: "They're bashing into one another coming up the Sheppey Bridge."

And in one clip, a trainee paramedic can be heard telling the response desk that he believes at least 50 vehicles are involved in the mass pile-up.

"Five zero? Fifty?" the responder asks, in apparent disbelief.

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The crash, which involved around 300 people, occurred on the morning of September 5 amid heavy fog.

Witnesses later blamed 'idiots' for driving at speeds up to 70mph and failing to use their fog lights in visibility of just 10 yards.

One told of an eerie silence in the fog, punctuated only by the sound of crashing vehicles over 10 minutes soon after 7am.

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Describing the drama, driver David Ingram said: “People were going far too fast, overtaking me at high speed.

“People coming on to the island in the opposite direction were waving their arms and flashing their lights like mad to try and slow them down.

"Those going too fast just ploughed straight into it. It’s carnage.”

Martin Stammers, 45, meanwhile, told how he and son Jay, 18, were nearly killed.

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The dad-of-five, from Minster, Isle of Sheppey, said: “It was so foggy you couldn’t even see the tail lights of the car in front of you.

"I was driving in the outside lane when suddenly ahead of me I saw a car blocking my lane. I braked hard and swerved to miss it.

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"That was the beginning of the pile-up – I was the last car to make it through unscathed. We were five seconds from, I would say, near death.”

The crash raised questions about the safety of the bridge, which was built as part of a £100million project to improve the A249 between the M2 and Sheerness.

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The audio recordings were released as part of ITV's Crash: Anatomy of an Accident, which was aired at 9pm yesterday. The documentary is available to watch on ITV.com .

During the programme, Kent Fire & Rescue Service also reenacted the pile-up, while emergency officials and victims gave testimonies about the shocking incident.