Large amounts of snow have brought traffic to a standstill in parts of Poland. A wide strip between the capital is affected by the extreme winter weather Warsaw and the port city of Gdansk. The Polish weather service declared the highest warning level 3 for the regions around Olsztyn and Elbląg. The warning is valid until Wednesday evening at 8 p.m.

There was a 20-kilometer-long traffic jam on the S7 expressway. Hundreds of people couldn’t get any further and had to spend the night in their cars and trucks. Already on Tuesday afternoon, the first trucks had problems driving and broke down. According to the police, the situation eased somewhat early on Wednesday morning.

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