Quote Originally Posted by Bigb23 View Post
They used to have [[still do?) that problem on EB 696 to the NB 75 ramp at rush hour. In a shop truck, and unfamiliar with the traffic at that hour, I was pacing traffic at 60 mph in the right lane when I realized that the traffic ahead was at a complete stop a 1/4 mile from the ramp entrance.
Slamming on the brakes and swerving onto the shoulder saved my ass and somebody else's.
Of course, once on the shoulder, nobody would let me merge back in.
They should of had portable warning signs or something 3/4 of a mile ahead when they knew they had a daily traffic hazard.
What I always found in that scenario is that the entire freeway would end up slowing down. The people getting over from the right to the right-center lane would slow both lanes down, then people from the right-center lane would get over to avoid that, and so on and so forth until all four lanes were slowed/stopped around that interchange, especially since there are usually high traffic volumes as well. It's a pain to stop there especially if you're going as through traffic, but I guess it's probably better than having these types of accidents if only one lane were to stop.

I guess traffic volumes aren't as high on the I-75 stretch to where that cascading slowdown across all lanes takes place.

That's awful and as a father to a two year old son, that a two year old died as well is especially heartbreaking.