Crazy Accident
I just wanted to relate an incident that happened to me a couple of years ago. There's another post about an accident that made me think about this one.
I was towing a travel trailer down I-65 and my ex was following me in an SUV. Traffic was pretty heavy because it was the first day of a long weekend.
We started seeing signs saying that there was construction and that the right lane was closed ahead, so the ex and I moved into the left lane. There were numerous cars passing in the right lane and then swerving into traffic and this caused more slow-downs. Eventually the left lane was travelling at less than 30 mph and people in the right lane were travelling 70-80 mph.
I was at the point where the barrels were placed in the right lane when I saw a line of cars coming up very quickly on my right. There was a van leading a pack of cars and they were all within a car length of the car in front of them.
The van squeezed between my RV and the barrels, swerved in front of me and locked up his brakes to keep from hitting the car in front of me. The car behind him suddenly realized that the lane had ended and swerved in into the side of my TT. The car behind him side-swiped my ex's SUV, hit the back of my TT and crashed through the barrels. The vehicle behind him continued on through the barrels and hit other vehicles before slamming into a generator and portable lighting system. Lots and lots of vehicle carnage but no one was seriously injured.
The aftermath was a real mess. The interstate was completely closed for several hours. Hundreds of cars backed up with nowhere to go. The ex, my 2 children, and I were stuck 300 miles from home with three wrecked vehicles. The only guy who made it out okay was the guy in the van. He drove away without a scratch.
I was towing a travel trailer down I-65 and my ex was following me in an SUV. Traffic was pretty heavy because it was the first day of a long weekend.
We started seeing signs saying that there was construction and that the right lane was closed ahead, so the ex and I moved into the left lane. There were numerous cars passing in the right lane and then swerving into traffic and this caused more slow-downs. Eventually the left lane was travelling at less than 30 mph and people in the right lane were travelling 70-80 mph.
I was at the point where the barrels were placed in the right lane when I saw a line of cars coming up very quickly on my right. There was a van leading a pack of cars and they were all within a car length of the car in front of them.
The van squeezed between my RV and the barrels, swerved in front of me and locked up his brakes to keep from hitting the car in front of me. The car behind him suddenly realized that the lane had ended and swerved in into the side of my TT. The car behind him side-swiped my ex's SUV, hit the back of my TT and crashed through the barrels. The vehicle behind him continued on through the barrels and hit other vehicles before slamming into a generator and portable lighting system. Lots and lots of vehicle carnage but no one was seriously injured.
The aftermath was a real mess. The interstate was completely closed for several hours. Hundreds of cars backed up with nowhere to go. The ex, my 2 children, and I were stuck 300 miles from home with three wrecked vehicles. The only guy who made it out okay was the guy in the van. He drove away without a scratch.
