Taipei  - Four Taiwan men involved in a car accident quit arguing about who was to blame after they discovered a numerology twist in their birthdates, a television channel reported Tuesday.

The four-car collision occurred Monday evening in a highway tunnel in Chiayi County, west Taiwan. No one was injured in the accident, but when the four men went to a police station to file a report, they saw their birthdates were June 6, July 7, August 8 and September 9, TVBS reported.

The succession of 6/6, 7/7, 8/8 and 9/9 was so unusual that the men forgot about assigning blame for the accident and began to marvel at the coincidence, the cable TV channel said.

"When we showed police our ID cards, we were speechless because this is too unusual. 'How can it happen?' we kept asking," Chen Kuang-chia said. (dpa)