Snow, icy weather disrupts travel across Europe
2010-01-12 02:26:06 GMT2010-01-12 10:26:06 (Beijing Time)
Reuters
A car drives past a submerged traffic sign in snow drift in northern German town of Guetzkow January 11, 2010. (Reuters Photo)
A worker cleans a snow plough on a section of the A20 motorway between Guetzkow and Greifswald which has been closed due to snow drifts, in northern Germany January 11, 2010. (Reuters Photo)
Pedestrians walk down a snow covered pavement after a heavy snowfall in Madrid, January 11, 2010. Snow and icy weather blanketed large parts of Spain and Europe disrupting air, road and train travel. (Reuters Photo)
Workers clean a snow plough on a section of the A20 motorway between Guetzkow and Greifswald which has been closed due to snow drifts, in northern Germany January 11, 2010. (Reuters Photo)
Snow and icy weather disrupted travel across Europe on Sunday, causing hundreds of motorists to abandon their cars in the northeastern German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where a foot of fresh snow fell and trapping others in their cars for hours on the A20 autobahn because normal snow ploughs could not reach them, authorities said.
