Knowledge You Can Build On — Est. 1998
Interstste parking lot
John C Lucas
Well im sitting in the I40 parking lot ear the Kingston tn bridge. Must be an accident. We have neen sitting about 20 minutes now. How long does it take to clear an accident tbese days. We left way early thinki g we would do some shopping before the doctors appointment. Now we may be lucky to make it.. i can see 1:2 mile ahead and no one is moving
Actually its been 40 minutes
Re: Actually its been 40 minutes
John K Jordan
I just got back from an unplanned trip to the doctor and saw this. I hope you are not still in traffic! We sat in an I-75 parking lot up on the mountain for over four hours once and I didn't enjoy it as much as I hoped I would. Some guy decided to go north in the southbound lanes in holiday traffic.
JKJ
Re: Actually its been 40 minutes
john lucas
John We sat there for 1 1/2 hours. There was an accident about 3/4 mile ahead of us so it must have just happened. they flew in a life flight.
Re: Actually its been 40 minutes
dick hines
You guys could live in the Hampton Roads area of Va. 1 1/2 hour back is as regular as a sun rise.
Re: Actually its been 40 minutes
John K Jordan
>>You guys could live in the Hampton Roads area of Va. 1 1/2 hour back is as regular as a sun rise.
There are several good reasons I don't. That's one!
Until I retired I worked for years for a large company. Due to the type of work I did I worked at home. The commute was 30 seconds. I liked that a lot. I could also go home for lunch.
JKJ
Re: Actually its been 40 minutes
dick hines
It was 68 miles to work. Some days I could do it a little over a hour. Other days it could be close to lunch before I got there. Their gas, truck and their time. My time started at 7:00AM no matter when I got into the shop
Scene Managment
Don Orr
It seems that police are not interested in accident scene traffic management these days. I understand they need to do their "reconstruction", but they could also do some traffic direction at the same time to get traffic moving at least a little. Around here every police vehicle from miles around shows up to an accident and they stand around trying to impress each other and ignore the huge traffic backup like no one else matters. Direct some traffic around the scene for crying out loud. It's not that hard. It might even prevent another crash farther back in the line.
Sorry for the rant but it's one the many things that just don't seem to make sense to me.
Re: Scene Managment
John K Jordan
I once sat for hours on a 2-lane road with a trailer full of 4-wheelers while the officers worked a druggie that ran off the road. Most of the delay was while they took the truck apart and searched it with microscopes, evidently. Seems to me it would have been so easy to let the line of vehicles pass on the opposite side of the road especially after they carried off the body. But I'm not in this business - maybe they had procedures that prohibited this.
Re: Interstste parking lot
Ric Taylor
In Houston an accident on one of the many freeways can sometimes close it down for 4 to 6 hours.
Re: Scene Managment
Fred Bearman (Port Huron, Michigan)
Exactly - up here I-94 routinely gets closed for hours if there is an accident - totally closed, not even one lane allowed to move - find a detour (where ? That's your problem - don't you have navigation?)
I mean, I understand the need to investigate, but have a plan - if you are closing the road, call up the department of transportation and put up roadblocks at the exit before and suggest a route around - be visitor friendly, kind of like the tourism ads say we are.
