Traffic

[10x]

Sister and BIL were supposed to be here at 11:30 for a noon dinner.
They called stuck in traffic 20 miles north of the Springs. An hour later they moved 3 miles.
They just saw one of the lighted road signs that says 19 minutes to Academy.

My wife is trying to hold dinner and not have it dry out.

One dumb move and hundreds of people are affected on I25.

Sorry I was all set to eat at noon, now it looks like maybe 1:30.

[patrick0685]

that sucks, hopefully they get there soon

[cofi]

multicar accident right around monument they had 25 shut down

[buckshotbarlow]

Our bro and sil are stuck there 2. Drink heavily!!!

[spleify]

Thats to bad, hope everyone is ok

[buckshotbarlow]

They're here...oh oh..more booze required!

[fitz19d]

And the GF wondered why I didnt want to go back down to Denver with her parents. (Still where I think it'd be awkward.)

[10x]

As far as drinking goes, sparkling apple cider only does so much. Falls a little short on days like today.

[Sharpienads]

That sucks there was an accident. And on Thanksgiving, too. I hate that stretch of I25.

[patrick0685]

at least you guys were not in TX, yikes

[Irving]

We drove down that way on Wednesday night. At one point traffic slowed way down. I started braking pretty hard, and the guy behind me took about 1 second too long to notice. When he started braking, he was pushing the pedal through the floor. He started to move left (I think to go around me on the shoulder if he had to) and went too far left while braking too hard. I heard his tires start to screech, and suddenly he was completely sideways behind me. Then he was completely sideways facing the other way, in the lane to our right (where the car that was there JUST missed getting creamed). Then he was back in the lane behind me, in the middle of a full 360, and finally ended up going backwards into the median. This all started while we were doing about 85 mph.



Fortunately, he didn't hit anyone, or anything, and went into the center median at a pretty low speed. He sustained zero damage, and the gap in traffic behind us was so large that he wasn't really in much danger of getting hit. So if you were driving I-25 S/B to Colorado Springs on Wednesday night around 8:30 pm and in a Pontiac Grand Am/Prix, I'm glad you made it out of that maneuver okay. Lucky timing as well since a few hundred feet later and there was a guard rail on both sides. I watched the whole thing in my mirror, but my wife was freaking out and was too scared to look back.

Oh yeah, and the guy behind the guy that spun out, and had to have seen the whole thing, rode my ass the ENTIRE time through the stop and go traffic jam we were all slowing for. Didn't he just see what happened to the other when he was following too close and didn't leave himself enough room?