Heavy snowfall in Japan leaves 1,000 drivers stranded in traffic jam. See pics
Heavy snowfall in Japan leaves 1,000 drivers stranded in traffic jam. See pics
Heavy snowfall in Japan managed to trap more than 1,000 vehicles on a highway in the country. The snow, which began on Wednesday evening, caused multiple traffic jams.
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Vehicles stranded on the snow-covered road in Japan Photo: Reuters
Heavy snow has been falling in Japan since Wednesday and as a result has stranded more than 1,000 vehicles forcing them to spend the night in their cars on Thursday. Parts of the country have been blanketed with snow after the country received a record snowfall.
Around 1,000 vehicles still stranded in snow on Kanetsu Expressway
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More than 1,000 people in Japan spent Thursday night stuck on a highway in their cars, waiting out a traffic jam with little food or water during a heavy snowstorm. Reports of the traffic jam, on the Kanetsu Expressway connecting Tokyo and Niigata prefectures, began emerging on Wednesday. By the early hours of Thursday morning, authorities had closed the highway entrance to alleviate clogging. The jam
began after a car got stuck in deep snow in the middle of the highway, grinding traffic to a halt, according to the Nippon Expressway Company (NEXCO), the country s highway operator. The country s central and northern regions had been hit with heavy snowfall that morning, disrupting transit and causing some communities to lose power.
Friday, 18 Dec 2020 04:53 PM MYT
Vehicles are stranded on the snow-covered Kanetsu expressway in Minamiuonuma in Niigata Prefecture, Japan in this photo taken by Kyodo December 18, 2020 Kyodo handout pic via Reuters
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TOKYO, Dec 18 Heavy snow brought traffic chaos to much of north-west Japan today, with hundreds of vehicles stuck on blocked highways.
“The government will do its utmost to rescue anyone who is stuck in their vehicle,” the government’s top spokesman, Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato, said at a regular briefing.
Self-Defence Force troops were delivering food, petrol and blankets, and helping clear snow, while fire service crews rescued some drivers, including at least three people who were taken to hospital, according to public broadcaster NHK.