We are in the middle of the summer holiday period in our country. Despite the corona crisis, many people from the Netherlands still go on holiday in Europe or return. Also in other countries around us the holiday period has arrived or is almost over. Germans and French, among others, leave on holiday en masse. Many holidaymakers go home or go home despite the corona crisis and this causes traffic and traffic jams on the roads in Europe. Probably more people are going on holiday by car because they don't dare to fly and can leave by car immediately if an outbreak occurs. The ANWB has already announced that next Saturday will be black Saturday. This weekend it will be extra busy on European roads due to inbound and outbound holiday traffic.

Black Saturday is a formulation to indicate enormous traffic in European car traffic, as a result of a massive holiday out or in. Black Saturdays in Europe often fall on the last weekend of July and / or the first weekend of August, when many French people go on holiday. At holiday parks in the South of France, a house can usually only be rented from Saturday to Saturday in high season. Many tourists therefore have to travel on Saturdays. The Autoroute du Soleil, A6 and A7, the motorway to the southeast of France and the east of Spain, have a lot of traffic on that Saturday.

"Those who hit the road must be well prepared. Provide sufficient supplies, water, mouth masks and a tank on time, says ANWB'er Broekhuis in the AD. Because it is getting horribly hot. Friday temperatures approach 40 degrees and Saturdays at least 30 degrees. Then the asphalt can also get 65 degrees hot. So don't leave the car barefoot. And a mask, because for example in the shops of the gas stations that is mandatory '

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