TRAFFIC CHAOS * New Zealand - Heavy snow, gales cause
The icy blast which swept up the country on Saturday caused traffic chaos, closing roads, skifields and airports in Otago
Dunedin,Otago,New Zealand -Otago Daily Times -7 Jul 2008: -- ... Snow which fell to low levels and settled on roads around Otago had mainly melted by late yesterday as the wintry blast which brought snow, gales and rain to the region on Saturday cleared... Up to 40cm of snow fell in Queenstown, producing near white-out conditions that closed the airport and skifields on Saturday... Iced-over roads resulted in several non-injury crashes, including one involving a bus which was steered into a bank by its driver when it started sliding down a steep hill... Residents of Dunedin's hill suburbs woke to about 10cm of snow on Saturday, and the day brought rain, snow and sleet... State Highway 1 from Dunedin over the Northern Motorway to Waitati was closed for 24 hours from 8am on Saturday as two snowploughs struggled to keep the road clear of snow... Many central North Island roads were closed on Saturday, with police reporting extremely hazardous driving conditions in the Wanganui and Manawatu areas... Heavy snow remained on both the Desert Rd and National Park sides of Mt Ruapehu yesterday afternoon, blocking the main access route through the central North Island... (Photo by Linda Robertson - A Passenger Transport bus which skidded in the snow on Brockville Rd, Dunedin, on Saturday morning)Labels: traffic chaos
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