Who doesn’t love sitting in traffic? Especially when there’s no apparent reason for it: no crashes, no tolls, no flaming mattresses.

Wait, what? Flaming mattresses? That’s a thing? Because if it is, I feel cheated, having never, ever seen any flaming mattresses in any of the traffic jams I’ve been caught up in. How have I missed out on this?

Anyway, here’s an animated graphic that shows you how traffic can come to a complete standstill even when there doesn’t seem to be any reason for it.