克罗地亚与塞尔维亚之间的巴亚科沃-巴特罗夫奇边境口岸周六因暑期旅游高峰导致严重交通拥堵，车辆排队长度达7公里，通过边检的等待时间超过8小时[1]。期间气温超过35摄氏度，旅客们在酷热中经历了极端考验[1]。这类拥堵状况前一天也曾出现[1]。
受困旅客对这一状况感到不堪重负。来自土耳其的游客塞纳德·阿曼表示："我们已经等了两个小时，我们非常疲劳、饥饿和口渴。"[1]72岁的维耶科斯拉夫·德拉斯科维奇也感到震惊，他说："我以前从未经历过这样的事情……我从未见过这样的情况。"[1]
欧盟新实施的生物识别入境系统(EES)自4月起广泛使用，该系统是否加重了边境拥堵情况目前仍不明确[1]。
Severe congestion at the Bajakovo-Batrovci border crossing between Croatia and Serbia has left motorists enduring extraordinary delays during the peak summer travel season.[1] Vehicle queues stretched as long as 7 kilometers, with some travelers waiting more than 8 hours to cross the frontier while temperatures soared above 35 degrees Celsius.[1]
The bottlenecks have persisted across multiple days, with similar conditions reported on Friday preceding the Saturday gridlock.[1] Turkish tourist Senad Aman, caught in the delays, expressed his exhaustion: "We have been waiting for two hours, we are very tired, hungry and thirsty."[1] Seventy-two-year-old Vojislav Draskovic, a local traveler, remarked that he had never witnessed such congestion, stating: "I have never experienced anything like this before... I have never seen anything like this."[1]
Whether the European Union's new biometric entry system, known as EES, which has been widely implemented since April, has exacerbated the border delays remains unclear.[1] August 1 typically marks the onset of peak traffic volumes at the crossing.[1]