Quoth powerboy
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This irritates me to no end. More than half the time, the road's not blocked. The reason traffic is backed up is because of the damn rubberneckers, twisting around to get a look at the wreck and/or guy getting a speeding ticket. "OOOOOOH! LOOKY!"
I remember one time in Charleston I was driving along and ran into a wall of traffic. For nearly 30 minutes I was in that snarl to travel just 2 miles. When I got to where the 'big thing' was, it turned out to be one of the local cops having pulled a guy over. No wreck, no glass, no blocked lanes, nothing. Just a routine traffic stop, and everybody across all three lanes was slowing to a crawl to get a good look. Absolutely clear road beyond the rubberneckers. I was furious.
I'll never forget a recent incident where I was driving along the interstate, 70 MPH (that's the speed limit in this state), came around a curve and just 50 yards in front of me traffic was stopped dead. No warning signs, no cruisers to flag traffic, no flares, nothing. The accident was 10 miles up the road. I had to steer onto the shoulder while slamming my brakes to avoid slamming into a mini-van. That got the old pumper pumping for several minutes, let me tell you. At least this time, though, it was legit. A truck carrying bags of feed had flipped over, and only 1 lane was open while they cleaned up the mess, on a bridge no less, between exits. You had no where to go.
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