Tailbacks Edit Meaning

1.

traffic backup initiated and maintained by thoughtless idiot gawkers preceeding a road-side human specatcle.

"I managed to get the bike on to the hard shoulder, and jump of it at a sensible speed. As it groundto a halt on the shoulder, it went pop three times, and turned into a ginormous fireball. I caused huge tailbacks, got on radio 1 travel time, and even into some of the papers..." -Dr.Nick R.