A car had, apparently, flipped and turned sideways, blocking all lanes of traffic on I-75 North. Only the left shoulder was getting by...until the police arrived on the scene and used the left shoulder as a police-only parking lot.
While the police, and a handful of Fire and EMS vehicles tended to the accident the motorists on I-75 just sat and waited. Some got of their cars and wandered up to the accident scene - or into the nearby trees for relief.
I looked up Detroit traffic on my phone and saw that they had completely closed down I-75 a couple exits behind where we were sitting. At that point, we knew we were going to be sitting there for a while, so we found some snacks to eat in Stephanie's car and enjoyed making fun of the motorists-turned-pedestrians that were wandering the expressway.
After over an hour of waiting, the police finally moved their cars over and re-opened the left shoulder, allowing us to continue on our way to the MGM Grand.
We spent a few hours there at the casino: gambling a little bit and waiting in long lines for crappy food. We left at around 10:00pm, heading back down I-75.
Much to our surprise, I-75 North was STILL closed at the scene of the earlier accident. Police were still on the scene with surveying equipment and the vehicles involved (there was a second vehicle about 100 yards away from the flipped car) hadn't moved since we had last seen them.
When we got home I looked online to see if there was any mention of this accident and road closure, assuming that for them to close down the road for that long there must be some sort of story. However, I found NOTHING. No mention of the accident and/or road closure on the Detroit Free Press website or any of the local Detroit TV station websites.
I just looked again today, figuring that maybe all reporters in Detroit took the weekend off and STILL find nothing. How can you close a major expressway for at least 3 hours and have not a peep in the local news? Were all of Detroit's news crews at the MGM Grand? That may explain why there was a 40 minute wait for crappy chinese take out food at the casino's food court.
(Is it just me, or have I seen an unusal number of accident recently? Maybe I should just lock myself in my condo like my neighbor)
1 comment:
Yes, I'd say your being witness to so many accidents is spooky. Either that, or there's nothing else to blog about....
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