The National Day spike in traffic leads inevitably to more accidents on China’s roads. One incident in our own Jiangsu Province captured by surveillance cameras clearly shows the dangers associated with expressway exits, where many an accident takes place.
国庆节交通高峰不可避免地导致中国道路上发生更多事故。在我们江苏省，监控摄像头捕捉到的一件事清楚地表明了高速公路出口的危险性，那里发生了许多事故。
It was at around 7 am on 3 October when the accident occurred at the exit for the Sutong Bridge service area on the G15 Shenyang-Haikou expressway a little south of Nantong in Jiangsu.
10月3日上午7点左右，事故发生在江苏南通以南的G15沉海高速公路苏通大桥服务区出口处。
It was at this point, where the expressway is three lanes wide that a white saloon car with a Shanghai license plate, that was traveling in the outermost left lane, suddenly veered to the right with intent to exit the highway to the service area.
就在这个三车道宽的高速公路上，一辆行驶在最外侧车道上的上海牌白色轿车突然向右转向，打算驶出高速公路前往服务区。
Colliding violently with a brown SUV that was on the car’s immediate right, the impact propelled both vehicles into the expressway guard rails beside the entrance to the exit’s slipway.
与汽车右侧的一辆棕色SUV猛烈相撞，两辆车都撞上了出口滑道入口旁边的高速公路护栏。
As a result, the saloon vehicle was thrown into the air, rolling several times before finally coming to rest.
结果，轿车被抛到空中，翻滚了好几圈，才终于停了下来。
The following police investigation revealed that after first striking the vehicle in the centre lane, the saloon driver attempted to bring the car back into the outermost lane, but that it was already out of control.
警方随后的调查显示，轿车司机在第一次撞到中间车道上的车辆后，试图将车辆开回最外侧车道，但车辆已经失控。
Video surveillance footage of the crash has been published on the Jiangsu Lifestyle Labs (江苏生活实验室) official WeChat account.
事故视频监控录像已发布在江苏生活实验室微信公众号上。
The accident has brought some of the inherent dangers with China’s expressways back to the fore of public debate. Slipways, or ramps, account for just 2 percent of China’s expressway mileage, yet fully 50 percent of expressway accidents occur near or on slipways.
这次事故使中国高速公路的一些固有危险再次成为公众讨论的焦点。船台或坡道仅占中国高速公路里程的 2%，但 50% 的高速公路事故发生在船台附近或船台上。
China’s high-speed traffic police have researched the statistic in depth and found the five main causes of such accidents to be vehicles that stop near slipways to observe road signs; vehicles that suddenly change lanes to enter the slipway (as in this case); vehicles using slipway deceleration lanes for overtaking; vehicles traveling too fast on slipways; and vehicles which having passed the exit, stop and reverse along the expressway to access the slipway entrance.
中国高速交警经过深入调查统计，发现造成此类事故的五个主要原因是车辆在船台附近停车观察路标；突然变道进入船台的车辆（如本例）；使用船台减速车道超车的车辆；车辆在滑道上行驶速度过快；已通过出口的车辆沿高速公路停车倒车进入船台入口。
Police remind drivers returning from the National Day holiday on China’s roads to exercise extreme caution around expressway exits.
警方提醒国庆假期返程的司机在高速公路出口处要格外小心。
