Heavy Snow Jams Traffic in Germany
Bavaria’s worst-ever traffic jam forced at least 60,000 people to spend the first night of the Christmas holidays trapped in their cars, as snow and ice brought chaos to Germany’s roads.
A 90-mile jam on the main north-south 9 highway Friday night was described by a police spokesman in Bavaria, southern Germany, as “certainly the worst we have ever seen.”
People were trapped in their cars for as long as 14 hours in snow that was up to 4 feet deep, a Bavarian Interior Ministry statement said.
In neighboring Switzerland, heavy snow forced about 40 flights to and from Zurich to be canceled Saturday, an airport spokesman said.
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