Road melts in heatwave
Lao Yang removes his tyres after they get covered with melted tar. As China bakes under a heatwave temperatures have risen so high that one tarmac road in Zhengzhou, capital of Henan province, has quite literally melted. The temperature in Zhengzhou reached as high as 40 degrees Celsius (104F), raising the surface temperature of the street to around 70 degrees Celsius (158F)...
Dozens of vehicles stuck to a road in heatwave-hit China after the tarmac melted in the hot sun.
The road, in Zhengzhou, capital of Henan province, had just been resurfaced the previous day, reports the Zhengzhou Evening Post.
It melted in 40C temperatures which saw the street surface temperature reach as high as 70C.
Vehicles including cars, buses, taxi cabs and ambulances began sticking to a 200m stretch of the road.
Plastic sheeting had to be laid as a temporary surface to get the traffic moving again.
Motorist Lao Yang said his car seemed to get heavier and heavier as he drove along the street.
"After getting out of the car to check what the problem was, I found both front wheels were covered in melted tarmac," he said.
"I had to lift the car with a jack, and take off the tyres to remove the asphalt."
An ambulance and a taxi cab nearly crashed into each other after losing control in the sticky conditions.
"It's lucky that our ambulance was empty, otherwise the wasted time here may have cost a life," said the ambulance driver.
Lao Yang removes his tyres after they get covered with melted tar. As China bakes under a heatwave temperatures have risen so high that one tarmac road in Zhengzhou, capital of Henan province, has quite literally melted. The temperature in Zhengzhou reached as high as 40 degrees Celsius (104F), raising the surface temperature of the street to around 70 degrees Celsius (158F)...
Dozens of vehicles stuck to a road in heatwave-hit China after the tarmac melted in the hot sun.
The road, in Zhengzhou, capital of Henan province, had just been resurfaced the previous day, reports the Zhengzhou Evening Post.
It melted in 40C temperatures which saw the street surface temperature reach as high as 70C.
Vehicles including cars, buses, taxi cabs and ambulances began sticking to a 200m stretch of the road.
Plastic sheeting had to be laid as a temporary surface to get the traffic moving again.
Motorist Lao Yang said his car seemed to get heavier and heavier as he drove along the street.
"After getting out of the car to check what the problem was, I found both front wheels were covered in melted tarmac," he said.
"I had to lift the car with a jack, and take off the tyres to remove the asphalt."
An ambulance and a taxi cab nearly crashed into each other after losing control in the sticky conditions.
"It's lucky that our ambulance was empty, otherwise the wasted time here may have cost a life," said the ambulance driver.