It’s too easy to get a drivers license in CA.  Not that it matters,  too many people are driving without one.  But, since those people don’t have any money, the go after parking violations at the mall and downtown that make the city 400 bucks a pop.   That goes for trucks too.  On my way home from work yesterday, I saw a double trailer truck pull on to the street in front of me and cut the corner too sharp (because he pulled out into traffic too soon), and took out a chunk of the curb.

This was on my way home from work around 6 pm.  Sarah left work at 11:00 am, and by the time i got home, she still was on the road.  That’s a 6 hour commute with a distance of 20 miles. Why?  because a truck tried to swerve around an idiot on the Friday before a 3 day weekend, and closed both directions of the 91 and the 71 freeways for most of the day, at a location that couldn’t be more of a bottleneck to begin with.  People were on the local radio stations talking about sitting outside their cars waiting for traffic to move in places several miles away from the accident, even on city streets.

It should be made clear that if a moron cuts off a truck, the truck is to hit them.  Especially if it in a pass.  The truck will win.  It will crush said moron, block only 2 lanes of traffic for maybe an hour, and then all will be well again.  Instead, 2 trucks, 4 cars and 8800 gallons of burning fuel were involved.

From now on, we will carry a credit card and a change of clothes in both cars.  Oh, and the Disneyland pass is to be kept on person.  We wont participate in this game.  We will go to D-land and/or stay in a hotel until the traffic toilet has been flushed.

Below is the caption from sigalert.com, of the reports on the accident.

Traffic Collision – Ambulance Responding – East 91 at 71    10:27 AM
* All Lanes Blocked    10:27 AM
* Big Rig on Fire    10:27 AM
* Big Rig vs Unknown Vehicles    10:27 AM
* Overturned Tanker Semi-on Fire    10:27 AM
* Per Reporting Party-All East Lanes Are Blocked    10:28 AM
* Transferred California Department of Forestry Perris    10:28 AM
* Black G All Lanes    10:28 AM
* Message/Item Delivered Corona Fire Department-En Route    10:28 AM
* Message/Item Delivered Corona Fire Department    10:28 AM
* Black Sedan Went Over Center Divider Blocking West 91 Slow Lane    10:29 AM
* Per Dup Black Sedan Was Hit By Semi now in West 91 Blocking Slow Lane    10:29 AM
* Message/Item Delivered Coroner Fire Department for B/line    10:30 AM
* Driver Oo Tanker Oo Vehicle    10:30 AM
* CHP Unit Enroute    10:30 AM
* Per Dup 3 Vehicle Traffic Collision Inlv on West Side Also    10:31 AM
* Sigalert Issued Log 630    10:36 AM
* Message/Item Delivered 8726 ETA 10 Mins    10:36 AM
* Per Corona Fire Department-Request West 91 Closed Prior to the 71-All Lanes    10:37 AM
* Per 30-Fully Enguilfed All Lanes East Stopped, Request Hard Closure    10:38 AM
* SNA See Line#35 Thanks-Request SNA Unit for Closure East 91 at Green River    10:39 AM
* 74-30 Start Santa Ana-Request Closure East 91 at Gr    10:39 AM
* Message/Item Delivered 8790    10:40 AM
* Message/Item Delivered 2    10:41 AM
* Message/Item Delivered Entac-Ofcr Mcqueen    10:41 AM
* CHP Unit on Scene    10:41 AM
* Per Reporting Party-Fire is now Gr    10:42 AM
* S5 Request 1 of Riv Units Take Over Closure on West Side    10:44 AM
* Per S5 Do not Approach Tanker    10:45 AM
* CHP Unit Enroute    10:47 AM
* CHP Unit on Scene    10:49 AM
* Per S5 Leave 71 Open-Request Rancho South 71 to East 91-Nothing West    10:50 AM
* Do U Need Caltrans to Close the 71 and We Have a Visual on the West Being Cloed    10:50 AM
* CHP Unit on Scene    10:51 AM
* 601 Request Caltrans for Hard Closure with Cones-Divert Traffic off at Euclid    10:52 AM
* 74-30 // Tanker is Dual Gas Tanker With Tanker Trailer    10:53 AM
* S5 Contact Corona Police Department and Advise They Will Have Alot of Traffic Going Thorug H Area    10:53 AM
* S5 Traffic Collision on Bridge Request 71 Closed at Butterfield Ranch-Caltrans Sup is 97 With S5    10:54 AM
* East 91 at Green River Closed and West 91 Closed at 71    10:54 AM
* 601 En Route to South 71 at Butterfield Ranch for Hard Closure from 71 at 91    10:55 AM
* Per S5 Full South 71 Closure Does not Wnat Vehicles Drivng Under 91 Bridge    10:55 AM
* Entac Updated With Closure Info    10:55 AM
* 74-M1-South 71 to West 91 Barricaded off-Media Calls Refr to Ofcr Walker    10:57 AM
* Per 30-6 Vehicles Involved-Unknown Any Further-2 on West Side, More on East Side    10:58 AM
* S2 Copys Rancho ER to Close the 71 ** Tanker on the Bridge Per 74-S5    10:58 AM
* Request Caltrans Engineer to Check Out Roadway When All is Clear    10:59 AM
* Per S5-Ascertain If There is Another Truck East Just East of Traffic Collision-P    10:59 AM
* CHP Unit on Scene    10:59 AM
* 45 B Advise Right Shoulder is Completely-Trying to Clear    11:01 AM
* S5 Not on 15 Closure-All Message Sign Signs Need to Activated That There is No Way throught the 91    11:01 AM
* Euclid On Ramp to South 71 Shut Down By 601-603 97 Shut Down South 71    11:03 AM
* 4-H80 // at Lake Arrowhead En Route to Traffic Collision    11:05 AM
* 603-Request ETA for Caltrans on Hard Closure South 71 at Butterfield Ranch    11:06 AM
* Per 45 B Right Shoulder Clear    11:06 AM
* 601 Caltrans Doing Sweeping Euclid On Ramp to North 71-Will Try to Help with What They Have There    11:12 AM
* CHP Unit on Scene    11:12 AM
* Per 8726 Closure is East 91 at Green River and Orange Cty Caltrans is Handling That Closure, West 91 is Closed at the 71, Diverting to North 71, South 71 is Closed at 91    11:16 AM
* Per 45 B Entire 91 Shut Down at Gr-When Corona Police Department is 97 Keep On Ramp Clear So Vehicles Can Exit Wrong Way    11:16 AM
* Per Fire-2nd Invld Big Rig is on the East 91 Transition to North 71-Carrying Load of Compressed Argon (?)-Request G Unit for 11-10    11:18 AM
* Message/Item Delivered S5-Truck Parked on Right Shoulder-is Involved    11:19 AM
* CHP Unit Enroute    11:19 AM
* S5-Request Rancho Unti to Assist Caltrans With Butterfield Ranch Closure All Ways Closed    11:22 AM
* CHP Unit on Scene    11:22 AM
* Per 86-S20 Request Corona Police Department-to Assist With Gr Closure    11:23 AM
* 603 Cps Line 122-All Lanes Shut Down    11:25 AM
* CHP Unit on Scene    11:26 AM
* CHP Unit Enroute    11:29 AM
* CHP Unit on Scene    11:34 AM
* CHP Unit on Scene    11:34 AM
* Message/Item Delivered Sbso-Will Roll a Unit to the 71 /91    11:41 AM
* CHP Unit Assigned    11:42 AM
* CHP Unit on Scene    11:44 AM
* S5-6 Hours Closure and Will Probly Be Closed Longer    11:45 AM
* CHP Unit on Scene    11:49 AM
* CHP Unit on Scene    11:50 AM
* CHP Unit on Scene    11:50 AM
* Reporting Party Advise Stuck in Cole Canyon Due to Traffic Collision with Sev Vehicles-Request Assist Getting Out    11:52 AM
* Per Sbso-71 at Pine-Several Party S Going Wrong Way Down the Pine Off Ramp-Sbso Will Advise What Direction on the 71    11:53 AM
* CHP Unit on Scene    11:53 AM
* CHP Unit on Scene    11:53 AM
* CHP Unit Assigned    11:53 AM
* CHP Unit Enroute    11:53 AM
* CHP Unit Enroute    11:54 AM
* CHP Unit on Scene    11:54 AM
* CHP Unit Enroute    11:54 AM
* Request Unit to Allow Traffic to Exit to Get Back on West    11:58 AM
* Per 123-601 Caltrans is On Scene-123-601 En Route to Pine Ave Off Ramp    11:58 AM
* CHP Unit on Scene    11:59 AM
* Per 123-603-Caltrans Has a Hard Closure in Place = 71 @ Pine Off Ramp    12:07 PM
* Advise There is Fire Personell Stuck in Traffic, Need Escort to Get Fire Personell    12:11 PM
* 123-601 Request Caltrans with Hard Closure-Pine On Ramp to South 71    12:12 PM
* CHP Unit on Scene    12:12 PM
* Message/Item Delivered 8734    12:14 PM
* Per H80-Jfi 91 East Closed at Wier Canyon and North 241 to East Diverting Traffic, H80 Landing at Chino Airport for Fuel    12:18 PM
* Thomas Guide Map Coordinates: Page 742, Grid 4D

Posted on May 29th, 2010 by admin
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