A six car pileup on 215 begets a five car pileup on 215. Two chain reactions within a few hundred feet - impressive lack of paying attention there, people.
Then after everyone weasels past the accidents, they get all excited and start rocketing down the highway doing about 90. Of course, then they all slam to a halt at the first onramp as traffic doing 45 tries to merge and there's a general freakout.
Then a mile later, once traffic is up to a reasonable 80 in the left lane, we all have to freak out again as there's a tractor/trailer in the middle lane doing under 60. This screws up traffic as everyone has to try to figure out how to pass on both sides, then collide with traffic merging from the onramp. Thanks, dude.
I'm not sure whether it's better or worse than the loaded dual trailer gravel haulers I routinely catch tailgating people doing 85 in the left lane. Now, I've never driven anything bigger than a bus, but I had a hunch that you can't stop that truck fast enough to avoid killing a number of people. Let's all just hope for the best...
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