20-km traffic jam on National Highway 19

A 20-km traffic jam on National Highway 19 left vehicles stranded for nearly three days near Sasaram, Bihar.

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00:00That's truck driver Duban Kumar, one of the few commuters stranded in a massive 20-kilometer

00:10traffic jam along the Delhi-Kolkata route.

00:12The jam on NH-19 near Sasaram in Bihar lasted nearly three days.

00:16Trucks and about a thousand commuters were stuck in the traffic jam.

00:19The jam started after road widening work near Shivsagar, Bihar slowed traffic while heavy

00:23rains turned the detours into choke points.

00:25What was meant to ease travel ended up stopping it completely.

00:29NH-19 is a quadrilateral highway that connects India's four major cities Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai

00:41and Kolkata, forming part of the Golden Quadrilateral and linking key trade and industrial centres

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00:47The jam didn't just trap travellers, it also choked the movement of goods across several

00:51states including Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkun and West Bengal.

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