This morning there were two accidents on my commute. One was a five car pile-up on the GSP and another was a three car accident on Westbound 78. Both times it looked as though the accidents were fairly recent when I caught up to them – traffic wasn’t HORRIBLE. I still made it to work by 9 a.m. Fortunately, it didn’t look like anyone was seriously hurt in either accident.
When I came upon the GSP accident I flipped through the radio stations and none of them were reporting the accident during their traffic reports. By the time I got to the accident on 78 (about twenty minutes later) a station finally mentioned the GSP accident. I felt like calling and saying, “There’s a new one,” but figured within 20 minutes they’d be reporting that one too.
Update at 12:25 pm: I finally met the guy that lives near me in Bloomfield. He clued me in to a back way to get to the office that still takes 40 minutes but never has traffic. He said it’s all country roads and a breeze since there are only four stop lights on the whole route and NO highway usage at all. He’s going to send me the specific directions today so I’ll give that a shot on Monday. I’d much rather drive 40 minutes at constant speed than 40 minutes of start and stop.
Which just goes to prove why traffic reports can’t be relied upon to predict the future. I’m almost to the point where, if an accident is reported on the radio, I specifically go that way because it will be cleared and traffic diverted by the time I get there. :irked:
Gwynne, I’m with you. 🙂
Our traffic reports are about 20 minutes behind, too.