I say accidents but I only know for sure that one of them was an accident. Driving through NY on I-90 yesterday I saw an overturned vehicle in the median, at around 6pm. There were probably a dozen emergency vehicles around. It looked like one of those vans that schools and camps and churches and stuff have for shuttling people around, but I mostly saw the underside of it and only glimpsed the top/front quickly as I passed by it. Here is the photo we snapped; we had already passed about half of the emergency vehicles at this point:
Anyway, the response vehicles were in such large number that it made me wonder what had happened, but I can’t find any info.
Then at about 11:30pm we were about 30 minutes east of Cleveland (in Ohio) and still on I-90, when traffic stopped. Completely. And didn’t start again. People were turning their engines off and getting out of their cars and stuff. After 30 minutes we made an illegal u-turn across the grass and found a different way home (after seeing several other vehicles do likewise). We didn’t see any emergency vehicles, but it could be that they were too far in front of us. Since we didn’t wait through it, I have no idea what the hold up was. I had been driving for about 13 hours and was very, very tired and still had about 45 minutes to drive to get home, which is why I bailed when I did.
So does anybody know what either of these situations were?
Edited to add: Googling for accidents on I-90 and so on isn’t helping much, which is why I’m posting. I figure maybe somebody saw something on the news.