There are a lot of people who take the back roads (I'm one of them) to avoid the gridlock on Rt. 4, starting at Plum Point Road and heading south to the hospital. I have detoured off onto Ponds Woods Road (and did so today) and take the back way into Dares Beach, where I live.
I made it as far as the intersection of Emannuel Church Road and Stinnett Road, preparing to make my left hand turn onto Emannuel Church when county personnel stopped me and said I could not go down there because of a fatal accident involving a motorcyle and vehicle. They were doing accident reconstruction at that time (5:00 pm). I headed straight, went back out to Plum Point and then creeped through the traffic out to Rt. 4. When I came down Dares Beach Road, it was an all clear to my road (Clay Hammond) but Wilson is about another mile down.