Caltrans has been resurfacing the Ramp of Doom for the last few weeks. No major accidents there, though on the opposite ramp yesterday a moron tailgated me on a curve at 50 MPH while holding a cigarette in one hand and dialing a cell phone with the other (I think she must have been steering with wrist pressure alone).
Anyway, this morning… big accident at the Walnut entrance to Jamboree. Looked like an overturned (and backwards!) gardening truck. Several fire trucks, a ton of police cars, a couple of random cars that looked okay (maybe witnesses, or people who stopped to help). The ambulance was just leaving as we arrived. The ramp was completely blocked, so plan A was to continue to Harvard… along with everyone else. Harvard isn’t built for that much traffic. So, on up to Culver, over a block, and back down to Jamboree (after a 2 mile detour).
Then, after I’d dropped alenxa off, I got on the 405… and guess what? Another accident! I couldn’t quite tell what was there, since it was on the other side of the freeway, though the fire truck was on the near side at the center divider. Looked like at least 3 cars, maybe 4.
And of course a construction crew at the classic Ramp of Doom.
It was one of those mornings…
When driving in AZ, following katyakoshka and David, a gal took exception to being passed by us (we were only trying to follow them.) She cut right in front of us just before the 202 onramp. She was holding a cell in one hand and…a AAA map in the other!
Drivers are full of the stupid these days.
“Drivers are full of the stupid these days.”
Maybe they think it can substitute for gas?
Stupid would make a poor alternative fuel it burns people so quickly.
But supplies are so plentiful! You’d think we could do something with it. We wouldn’t even have to import foreign stupidity — our domestic reserves are high enough as it is!