VIDEO: Chinese motorists trapped in 50-lane toll road traffic jam
Published in Weird News
BEIJING (UPI) -- Drone footage from a Chinese toll road near Hong Kong shows thousands of cars at a standstill in a traffic jam spanning the 50-lane road.
The footage, recorded Monday near the Hong Kong border on the G4 Beijing-Hong Kong-Macau Expressway, shows thousands of vehicles stopped on the road amid a traffic jam branded "carpocalypse" and carmageddon online.
China's state-run Xinhua news agency said, "the traffic jam resulted from a combination of tourists returning from their Oct. 1-7 Golden Week vacations, foggy conditions and the road's 50 lanes being bottle-necked to 20 by a new checkpoint."
An estimated 750 million Chinese citizens were expected to use the country's roadways for Golden Week Travel, the country's National Tourism Administration said.
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