Then (EXCEPT those that NEVER got ‘under the fold) it explains a couple of POVs were blocking the ramp and the ‘children’ were playing on the INTERSTATE HIGHWAY...
After letting this roll around in the back of my pointy head for a while, I THINK the way this happened and the reasons why are:
1. The driver is known to have recently been at other protests.
2. The interstate was closed with official barriers.
3. The presence of POVs tells me that at least some "protestors" were aware they could drive on the highway if they went up and off-ramp and made a U-turn.
4. Most probably the driver wanted to join the protest, but driving on surface streets, finding a parking place, and walking up to the highway did not fit with his entitled mentality, so
5. The driver was speeding along an empty freeway hoping to find the protest, when he came up to the POVs and went around them going too fast. They blocked his vision and he did not see the people on the highway until too late.
I do not believe for a second that the driver was an innocent person who simply blundered onto a closed freeway. I think he and a few before him had used the highway to get to the protest without having to walk.
Excellent post.
“I do not believe for a second that the driver was an innocent person who simply blundered onto a closed freeway. I think he and a few before him had used the highway to get to the protest without having to walk. “
I hasn’t considered this possibility. Makes perfect sense.
Social justice.
Agreed on almost all accounts. The first “protest” was sanctioned and the police/WSDOT set up barricades for it before it began.
Then the protestors kept doing it on their own and the times getting later and later. They would block the road with POV and then the police and WSDOT had to react.
But there were reports of tweets sent to other protestors on how to use the exit ramps to enter the highway to get to the protest.