3 Canadians injured in Motorhome crash

dieharder wrote:
Looking at it on street view, I'm going to say that, at that time of the night, orange barrels on the road directing you, I'll bet that the driver never even realized that he was being led off the highway and just assumed that he was continuing on driving through a construction zone with a new lane paved around it.

I see nothing on that ramp that even makes you feel like you need to slow down, especially if you don't know it's an exit. Just goes to show that you really need to slow down and pay special attention when going through a construction zone, even if no one else is on the road.

The way that exit is on street view is pretty nasty, and you can see where it appears many vehicles had to get on the binders pretty hard at the end. You're approaching what looks like a split, but you don't see the stop signs on either side until you get right near the split. For a motorhome driving at highway speeds, that's definitely going to be a problem.

I'm thinking that part of what you are saying is that signage varies from one part of the continent to another. I remember having many make such comments when I lived in Newfoundland and was working. Where I live now (retired), signage is different from Newfoundland. The alert, you're coming to an intersection signs are far from the intersection, IMHO.

& when I was in the midwest US, finding a mega change from one county to another, including changes in route #s as you were driving along. When you went from one county to another, they might change the route # to a county # from a state route #. It was most confusing and when I stopped for gas I asked what in the world was going on. The answer I got, was, well that's the way we do it, or most dangerous - not withstanding the classic 'ignorance of the law' words.

We drive all over these days and it's up to us to take care and caution, especially in someone else's back yard.

:C