Bottleneck on S3 - traffic jams and accidents
During the summer holidays, the section of the S3 Zielona Góra – Sulechów expressway is clogged, and there are no accidents or collisions. For example on weekends.
On Tuesday, August 5, there were a lot of traffic jams on the S3 highway near Zielona Góra in the morning. In both directions stretched a string of trucks, buses and cars stuffed with luggage. Then four cars collided at the height of Zavad. Traffic has been suspended. For a few hours. Immediately formed a huge traffic jam on both sides. A few minutes after the collision, the column of cars from both sides was already several kilometers long. There were trucks, buses and cars in line. - I won’t do anything, trucks don’t go over the old bridge in Chigachitsy. I have to stand in a traffic jam, says Andrzej, a driver from the Kielce area. Several passenger cars from Zielona Góra and its surroundings drove along the old road through Chigachitse. After a while, the traffic jam also became so big that it took about an hour to cover several kilometers. There is a traffic light on the old bridge in Chigachitsa. The police regulate traffic there manually as much as possible. However, this is of little help. As truck drivers say, “when there is an accident near Zielona Góra, there is also expectation.” The police and emergency services must act independently after an accident or collision.
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- You have to fix the traces at the accident site, draw up documentation and, finally, tow the wrecked cars off the road. Firefighters have to clean the asphalt from spilled gasoline or oil. It continues,” says the asp. staff. Andrzej Gramatyka, Deputy Head of the Zelenogur Road Brigade. The problem is even worse when you need to move a wrecked truck off the road.
Every weekend, even if there are no accidents, the convoy of cars heading to the sea starts behind Zielona Gora and ends only on the two-lane road near Sulekhiv. The traffic jam starts again near Sulekhov and ends behind Zielona Gora. - The traffic is so huge that cars literally drive in a column. Remember that there is only one lane in each direction from Zielona Góra to Sulechów,” says Asp. staff. A. Grammar.
Since the beginning of the summer holidays, there have been four accidents on the S3 highway served by the Zielona Góra bus station, in which eight people were injured. Since the beginning of holiday trips, 24 bumps have already been counted.
