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Floopydoodler t1_jeacwck wrote

Everything is more complicated with that tunnel. Having once spent 2 hours inside a closed tunnel waiting on state police engaged elsewhere, it doesn't even take something major to snarl. Don't know why state police are required to clear the scene but they are. Now every time I go thru those tunnels I think about the afternoon I spent sitting on the barriers with the dude who smashed into me. He apologized 9,000 times and his boss showed up on scene to scream at him (he was driving a work truck). Then we were given the finger from 9,000 people who had been stuck in traffic outside the tunnel once they reopened. good times.

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BlimeyFish t1_jecqrim wrote

It's 376, a state road. So therefore, state police. It's silly of course but that's how these things work.

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DugganSC t1_jecv3zx wrote

And, of course, there's good reason why they take any crash seriously. That's a very enclosed space, and just a little bit of smoke will lead to little to no visibility, panic, and subsequent deaths, c.f. the Mont Blanc Tunnel fire.

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