Can you navigate through this road crossing that has left drivers baffled?
Drivers in Romania are pulling their hair out over these new road markings. But can you find your way through the maze of dotted white lines?
DRIVERS have been left baffled by these incredibly complicated road markings at a redeveloped junction.
The mess of lines on the road look more like an abstract artwork than traffic guidance, leaving drivers confused and fearing they will cause an accident by passing into the wrong lane.
Police in the city of Timisoara, Romania, are investigating whether the maze of road markings were created in accordance with traffic standards.
A private contractor is known to have carried out the road repainting along with other work, hired by the city council.
In reality, the junction works in the same way as most four-way crossings in Europe, but the confusion for drivers is the addition of the dotted lines to guide their path.
It is normally assumed that motorists will know which lane they need to turn into, but in trying to make this easier for drivers to see, the contractor has simply over complicated matters.
Romanian citizens have take to social media to poke fun at the bizarre slew of dotted lines on the busy junction.
One said wrote: "Local legends say that in Dan Brown's next book, Robert Langdon will find the Grail using these markings."
Another said: "They are not made for road traffic, they are signs made for aliens."
And another suggested: "It's a map of pirates' treasure."
A spokesman for the road building company responsible told Romanian media: "From my point of view, it's logical.
"If you're in the lane of traffic, you'll see it's no problem.
"The comments came because this junction is more marked than any other junction in Timisoara city."
