Well, there I am at a single-car MVA off the road into the trees. The driver is hurt real bad, and there are FOUR cruisers, TWO ambulances, TWO fire trucks and a flat-bed on the scene in the BDL.
One of the fire crews decides to put little orange cones around their truck, into the travel lane which is making cars squeeze into the high speed lane. Since this is causing more chaos than we want, we decide to take the travel lane altogether to give us more room.
I back up my cruiser in the travel lane and then start to set up some flares. I get a nice taper going while watching traffic whiz by, hardly slowing for all of this (65 mph zone). There is plenty of visibility down the road. I turn my back to walk back into the BDL and a TT unit almost takes me out, skids about 100 feet from the travel lane into the high speed lane becaue he didn't slow down and merged late, and rear-ends another looky-loo.
After I got my stomach out of my throat, a lady slows to ask me if she can speed through because she's late for an appointment.
One of the fire crews decides to put little orange cones around their truck, into the travel lane which is making cars squeeze into the high speed lane. Since this is causing more chaos than we want, we decide to take the travel lane altogether to give us more room.
I back up my cruiser in the travel lane and then start to set up some flares. I get a nice taper going while watching traffic whiz by, hardly slowing for all of this (65 mph zone). There is plenty of visibility down the road. I turn my back to walk back into the BDL and a TT unit almost takes me out, skids about 100 feet from the travel lane into the high speed lane becaue he didn't slow down and merged late, and rear-ends another looky-loo.
After I got my stomach out of my throat, a lady slows to ask me if she can speed through because she's late for an appointment.
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