Leaving Dallas

We are driving on I-35E. It's a beautiful day, the sun is shining bright, traffic is light, and we are heading off to a new place. Suddenly a mattress goes flying across the interstate, cars are swerving left and right, George is doing his best to avoid a collision, suddenly three red cars converge on one another then bounce apart as though in a pinball machine. As they do, two additional cars seem to burst out of the scene and become entangled in the mess in front of us.

Finally things stop moving, swerving, bouncing and scattering.  There is glass, auto parts, metal, plastic, springs (unclear if they were from a car or the mattress) and cars in various states of damage scattered across the 4 lane highway. We were the first vehicle not in the accident. We pulled over, called 911, then went to go see the damage and see If we could help.  Everyone seemed fine except for one of red cars. 

The police and ambulance finally show up. They take care of the two ladies in the mangled red car. It appears everyone is alright and no one suffered life threatening injuries. After providing a written and signed affidavit of what occurred we embarked once again with cautious haste and got the heck out of Dallas. 

The mattress flew off of the pickup truck behind the tow truck in this picture. 

The car facing sideways into the guardrail was the most badly damaged. 

One of the other red cars. It ended up on the other side of the highway then died during the crash.  A police suburban pushed it across the highway. The wheels wouldn't even spin. It just skated across the roadway.