At night, due to a heavy snowstorm on the M-12 Vostok highway, I had to stand in traffic jams from one hour to five hours. Driver Yuri told socialbites.ca about this. He explained that he had been on the road since 5 o’clock in the evening the other day and there was a traffic jam along the road.
“We have been on the road since five o’clock in the evening. There was a traffic jam along the road, we got up, some cars got stuck, Avtodor employees came and helped. Men were running there with shovels in their hands and fetching a sorter. In principle, the work was organized, but in the end everything changed there, in the morning we could no longer go anywhere – we waited for a long time. We stopped many times, I can’t tell you how many times. On average we stopped at each location for an hour, or even more than an hour. We stood motionless for at most five hours. “And so you stand for an hour, we traveled for ten minutes, you stand for another hour and a half,” he said.
Yuri added that traffic returned to normal around 10 a.m. (Moscow time), with drivers moving slowly in a single column.
“I was almost at the beginning of the jam. I’ve seen why this happens, mostly cars get stuck. Or there was a car with a trailer, like GAZelle, which could not cope with the climb, the truck began to overtake – it also climbed and got stuck. They also came out and helped. “We have just set out, we seem to have cleaned up the mess, we are walking slowly in a single file,” he said.
Another driver, İldar, emphasized in his interview with socialbites.ca that there was a “terrible situation” due to the roads not being opened on M-12 at night, and that the drivers “could neither eat nor go to the toilet”. ”
“Avtodor” around seven in the morning on January 17 reportedThere is temporarily no traffic on the section 684 – 836 km (Kanash to Shali) of the M-12 “East” highway due to difficult weather conditions. The company then called on drivers to postpone long journeys for 24 hours and stated that the Ministry of Emergencies provided the necessary assistance to those who found themselves in the specified area.
Previously, there were 10 trucks in Tatarstan hit had a major accident and closed the highway.