This is the moment a shocking multiple-car pileup occurs on a motorway during icy conditions.

The footage was shot on the motorway at Bijie, a prefecture-level city in northwestern Guizhou Province, China on 16th January.

The footage shot on the S20 Biwei Expressway from Zunyi to Weining starts with a lorry screeching down the road heading towards a collision with an SUV.

The SUV quickly moves out of the way, and the lorry comes to a halt seemingly without causing any damage.

Seconds later, a white car, apparently not breaking it all, ploughs into the back of the SUV that just moved out of the way.

Moments later, it is hit by another white vehicle that also appears to crash without slowing at all on the icy road.

People in the mangled wreckage then start to climb out of the vehicles, and some people can be seen running to the side as a horn sounds, and seconds later, a lorry ploughs into the wreckage, sending cars flying.

Meanwhile, yet another lorry then crashes the first one, completely destroying the rear, with the driver clambering from the wreckage of the ruined vehicle.

The weather officials said that the road was icy because of a combination of freezing conditions and fog that made the road surface extremely slippery.

Local emergency service officials said that nobody was hurt in the multiple-car pileup and urged motorists to take more care during icy conditions.

The Chinese Traffic Management Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security warned: “The braking distance on ice and snow roads is more than 7 times that of normal road conditions, and sufficient driving buffer distance should be reserved.”