Wild Commutes That Make Rush Hour Traffic Look Easy

Heavy Traffic

China's traffic is on another level. This highway has 50 lanes of traffic that once had a massive car pile up. Traffic was stopped for 3 hours on the G4 Beijing-Hong Kong-Macau expressway. It caused mayhem and the 2015 accident made local history. This was the only recorded report of such a massive gridlock though, so it must not happen very often, thankfully.

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