Deadly Accident Snarls Beltway Traffic ~ Traffic still backed up for miles
Culling the herd.
huntr1
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Stupid freaking people should not be allowed to breathe, let alone drive a motor vehicle. Couldn't sleep last night, so I took the recommended dose of sominex. Slept like a log until 5:30 this morning. Couldn't get going, so I slept in until about 7:30 or 7:45. Left home at 8:00, got to work at 9:49. Not bad time wise, but I went up 381 to 4 to Ritchie Marlboro to the Beltway. Then found out that there was an accident/building fire on 29. By the time I got to 29, they were waying "all clear" so I got off there as usual. WRONG! But that traffic only added maybe 5 minutes to my drive. All in all, with as bad as they were screaming the traffic was, I had little to no problems getting in. Just the aggravation of it all.
When I went around the beltway this morning the sign said 3 left lanes blocked. I just happened to be in the left lane and before I could get over traffic in the right two lanes were stopped for about two miles. I rode the left lane all the way up because I couldn't get over till the last min at the flares, made great time getting around that this morning
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dems4me
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huntr1 said:
I was 37 minutes late...
an hour elapsed from route 5 to halfway on suitland parkway (normaly a 15 min. ordeal in traffic my time of day) - we weren't moving at all and all I could do was sit there and watch the clock tick away on the dashboard and knowing I'm needed at work this morning -- I felt like a rubber band by the time I finnally got into work - several hours after I left the house. I was ready to snap at any direction... and sick to my stomach and lightheaded from the stress. If there's something that bothers me more than anythin else in the word its this easily preventable crap. I really can't stand it when someone's thoughtless, selfcentered, stupid, assinine actions negatively and directly affect thousands of other peoples lives. I think the fitting punishment for such assclowns that screw up traffic like this in the morning should stand on a block. Then have every single person he affected and made late due to his assinine selfcentered actions, come up and give him a good smack across the face. That woudl be over a thousand smacks... yeah 
seems fitting for the crime to me
huntr1
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So have you been reamed out by management yet for being late? Haven't you learned by now that you need to allow an extra hour of travel time every morning just in case some azzclown pulls a stunt like this? So what if you are already allowing 1.5 hours for a 1 hour commute in, you need to now allow 2.5 hours for the 1 hour commute.
Okay, I have to ask: how the hell do you enter the beltway in the wrong direction???????
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dems4me
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huntr1 said:
I allow an hour and a half in to work and generally that's fine but when traffic gets back up its major delays. Last Thursday was terrible too... they just said delays on Suitland parkway, they should have said major catastrophic delays on Suitland parkway... I sat on there for an hour and a half and finally realizing I'd be unacceptably late, I jumped the curb, crossed the median and called in sick - sad part is I had already made it into DC.
I try to leave early enough to compensate but either I get here 45 min. early (and they have a no OT in the morning policy and I'm instructed to hide if early - which in itself is assinine) or I get in ontime if there are delays... its just too hard to predict but admin. does what it can for me. They have set a window for me to get in... they said ... look Dems... just get in somewhere between 9 and 9:30 and only take a half hour lunch.
They work with me on this -- Lord only knows why but they think I'm a valuable employee
but on days where its terrible, or like when they shut down route 5 northbound last month, etc... it looks bad when I come in anytime after 9:30. I would like to move my hours up but the majority of my assignments are late folks - not early birds, and the later I leave and arrive the more chance of accidents or other occurances and then at 9:00 people start parking on the streets in DC narrowing roads down to one or two lanes. It's all a headache. I'm done with my rant and need to get some more work done, I have clients in today ... nonetheless, I still want to create a one smack policy though for the offender....
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vraiblonde said:
Thank you!!!! I had been wondering the same thing all morning long and was wondering if it wasn't a suicide attempt and all for it to then head for a tractor trailor... This could have been prevented... but yet one more effn' idiot that negatively affects thousands of other people because of is assinine behavior. Its pure selfcentered, inconsiderate thinking and lots of innocent people ended up inconvienced because of it.That time of morning road is pretty empty, so to hit the truck I would take the guess and say it was hit on purpose. That truck was tore up, I have to wash my dang car now because it's got fuel on it from driving through the puddle. I couldn't believe they were letting people by driving in puddles of fuel.huntr1 said:
From what I can remember it was a big box truck, like a 25' or so, But my memory isn't known to be the best, and it was a red little truck, couldn't tell what kind but at first glance I thought it was a cherokee.dems4me said:
A very good friend of mine was killed my a drink driver who was heading up the off ramp of the interstate and he and his friend were heading down on their motorcycles. The one friend had to witness this drunken fool murder his good friend. This happened in 1988 in Virginia Beach. The poor guy had just gotten back in off the ship the day before. My guess is that whoever did this today must have been drunk or high as well.
Well, it couldn't have been an accident, that's for sure. Beltway on and off ramps are...well, I was going to say dummy-proof but...huntr1 said:
This has my vote.......
truby20
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dems4me said:I really can't stand it when someone's thoughtless, selfcentered, stupid, assinine actions negatively and directly affect thousands of other peoples lives. I think the fitting punishment for such assclowns that screw up traffic like this in the morning should stand on a block. Then have every single person he affected and made late due to his assinine selfcentered actions, come up and give him a good smack across the face. That woudl be over a thousand smacks... yeah
They were killed in the accident, you don't have to worry about a punishment.
dems4me said:
Since coming in late you have been able to log into somd.com and make three posts to an ongoing topic? I don't see how that place could function without you.
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dems4me
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truby20 said:
I multitask well... Glad you can contribute to the topic at hand instead of taking stabs at me BTW, three 30 sec. posts in a two hour period is not very time consuming either and furthermore, somd.com functions just fine without me and my three posts... .
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