Istanbul’s traffic increases with car accidents

ISTANBUL – Hürriyet

An end-to-end pileup, which involved eight cars on a side road of the Haliç Bridge that crosses over Istanbul’s Golden Horn, led to extra density in traffic. DHA photo

Istanbul’s notorious traffic reached new proportions of chaos at rush hour on Oct. 7 due to accidents on the city’s main arterial roads. 

An end-to-end pileup, which involved eight cars on a side road of the Haliç Bridge that crosses over Istanbul’s Golden Horn, led to extra density in traffic. The fire brigade rescued a driver, who was stuck in his car, while the road was cleared of cars and fully opened to traffic at 6 p.m. 

Meanwhile, a car accident led to the shutdown of a lane on the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge, which caused the density of the traffic to increase from the European side to the Asian side.