Dangerous roads, perilous journeys: your GuardianWitness pictures

Barbican Road, Kingston. Results of the damage from tropical Storm Nicole in Jamaica. The road wasn't fixed for over a month … but was still in use!
Photograph: ShakiraNelis/GuardianWitness

Bridge crossing in Kasaï-Occidental, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This Landcruiser fell into the skeleton of a bridge, blocking our route to the other side. It took a team of 10 men more than four hours to raise it Photograph: Hugo Warner/GuardianWitness

An Indian truck hanging on the edge … Photograph: theboseographer/GuardianWitness

Driving blind … as if India's roads aren't hectic enough, overloaded vehicles splutter through the cities at all hours. It is safest to give them a wide berth Photograph: willwhiten/GuardianWitness

Iko Ekperem bridge, on the unpaved road from the Calabar-Ikom highway, Cross River state, south-east Nigeria
Photograph: badBraind/GuardianWitness

On a trip through remote Vietnam, we came across a river with no bridge. We were about to turn back when a local turned up and pointed to what we had assumed were telegraph wires. Then things got interesting … Photograph: shayhtfc/GuardianWitness

The bus network is quite good in El Salvador, but inevitably there are places they don't reach and the volume of demand is high. So some passengers pay a little money and cling on for dear life. El Salvador has a very high road death toll
Photograph: ArmandoLopez/GuardianWitness

Road repair in southern Kyrgyzstan Photograph: 732/extralarge/GuardianWitness

Cambodia in the wet season. The dirt roads turn to swamps in the wet season – but getting stuck in the mud is better than risking trying to drive off the road, which is still blighted by landmines
Photograph: 22bySeven/GuardianWitness

A village side road in rural Bangladesh. People use the road to travel to the village, but there is no pedestrian pathway Photograph: Animesh Biswas/GuardianWitness

Obstructions on the road in Kruger national park, South Africa Photograph: markahoy/GuardianWitness

Road to Lachung, North Sikkim, India. Scary and bouncy journey accompanied by some of the most beautiful landscape Photograph: Abhishek Ranjan/GuardianWitness

Bangkok tuk-tuk Photograph: bendyblanco/GuardianWitness