Can anybody imagine the road rage that would take place if that happened here.
Imagine trying to call your boss to tell him you’d be a little late getting to work... a week and a half late!
The first was a major accident on I-95 north/east of New York City about ten years ago. It was on the northbound side of the roadway during the evening rush hour, if I remember correctly. There were no fatalities in the accident . . . but because it involved multiple vehicles and some large trucks, the EMTs and fire department personnel on the scene had to do some very delicate work to extricate some of the injured victims. The road was closed through most of the night, and the police arranged to have northbound drivers back their cars up to the previous exit to find an alternate route. The process took so long that the cars closest to the scene ended up staying there all night, and the news reports the following day included interviews with some drivers who slept in their cars all night and then simply turned around and drove back to work the next morning.
The second one was the infamous Valentine's Day Blizzard in 2007 that shut down stretches of I-78 and I-81, stranding some drivers for more than 20 hours. A CBS news report on that incident is linked below: