What does トラックなど１２台の車 mean?


I've been trying to figure this text out in NHK news easy:
<http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/easy/k10010447431000/k10010447431000.html>

There is a part when it says: トラックなど１２台の車がぶつかる事故がありました。 I couldn't understand
this トラックなど１２台の車 exactly, the order of the words are confusing me I think. I'm
reading "truck 12 cars", and I don't know what this など is doing. I think the
overall meaning is "one truck and twelve cars", but I want to know exactly
which role each word is playing. Could someone explain this part to me?




「など」means like "etc." or "and so on". Here, 車 isn't necessarily "cars", but
"vehicles". So overall, it means "There was an accident involving 12 vehicles
(trucks included)." Or you could more easily say "A 12-car pileup"; in this
case—even in English—you would know that "12-car" is not just limited to
actual "cars", but vehicles.




「など」means like "etc." or "and so on". Here, 車 isn't necessarily "cars", but
"vehicles". So overall, it means "There was an accident involving 12 vehicles
(trucks included)." Or you could more easily say "A 12-car pileup"; in this
case—even in English—you would know that "12-car" is not just limited to
actual "cars", but vehicles.

