Yesterday on Fancy Gap--One Big Mess

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  2. bryan21384

    bryan21384 Road Train Member

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    Those 2 drivers fouled up big time!!!
     
  3. Grouch

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    I am under the impression, from viewing the picture, there are 3 or 4 trucks involved.
     
  4. bryan21384

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    It certainly looks that way. I wonder how they make a mess like that going up that steep hill.
     
  5. Grouch

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    My question also. I was at home viewing all this on the highway cameras and information supplied by VA511. At one time they were detouring traffic over to U.S 52. Actually, from the picture, I would never guessed they were northbound.
     
  6. Tall Mike

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    I wonder if they were following to close and not paying attention ?
     
  7. bryan21384

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    You'll smell that aroma of breaks by the time you get to that NC scale every time going southbound. The captioned said the Interstate was closed north so that made me assume such. Since they were going northbound, I had a visual of a couple of trucks in the granny lane, one going 30 and the one behind going 33. The driver going 33 probably tried to pass and cut another truck off, who could pull the hill. Then I had imagined all that mess happening.
     
  8. Opus

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    Yeah, honestly, there's no reason to be in the ditch northbound.
    Southbound, sure.
     
  9. nikmirbre

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    Thats kind of hard to do(wreck in the ditch going northbound)

    Its kinda hard to believe the headline.....it appears the pictures are being taken from the northbound lanes lol
     
  10. M22 rockcrusher

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    I was wondering the same thing
     
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