![]() Download the Triple Team Traffic Alerts App to hear reports from the WSB Traffic Team automatically when you drive near trouble spots. Talented racers are often not the best drivers - especially when they are given a void.ĭoug Turnbull, the PM drive Skycopter anchor for Triple Team Traffic on 95.5 WSB, is the Gridlock Guy. And skilled wheelmen also should never trust the drivers around them to drive cleanly or should never assume that hazards won’t arise ahead. Even the best, most controlled, most acclimated driver in the world can make mistakes. The light volume on pandemic-cleansed freeways or during the sleepy late nights are inviting for engine revs and tire squeals.īut the consequences have not changed over time. The gap in time during work or school is where hijinks can occur. But fatalities have risen in Georgia, despite safer cars and the state having a stricter hands-free law in place since 2018. Vehicles have only gotten safer each year. Harder crashes mean more injuries and more deaths. Then later in the pandemic, when the roads started to fill with other cars, velocity-jaded motorists ended up slamming into slower ones. Higher speeds also acclimate those drivers 90 or 100 mph seems less stark after a while. When the roads became ghost towns, the demons came out to speed. The wide conclusion on the reason for this trend is the void created by the early-pandemic shutdowns. The fatality rate surged in 20 then decreased slightly in 2022, the TRIP study said. The firm found that the fatality rate per vehicle miles traveled increased 19% nationally and 20% in Georgia from before the pandemic to after it. TRIP, a national transportation research non-profit, recently found that road fatalities increased both locally and nationwide from 2019 to 2022. But APD said they had not yet determined there to have been any racing related to this wreck. Maybe some jostling of positions or racing caused contact and then a domino effect. That blip in the continuum could easily cause chaos. Say a fast-moving pack of highly adrenalized muscle car drivers, traveling close together, runs up on slower cars or a tractor trailer. 11:30 Sunday night traffic is normally very spread out. ![]() The fact that this late-night crash involved so many vehicles and was spread into nearly every lane seemed to fall in line with a bunch of cars traveling close to each other. The tangentiality of the wreck to the crowd on Moreland Ave. While I could not prove my theory, I still stand by it. Records indicate that this was nothing more than a multi-car crash, APD said. or otherwise), and they said that no arrests were made. The police, however, could not confirm if any street racing was involved in that crash, if any of the cars involved were street racing prior (on Moreland Ave. That crash certainly had to have involved some of the cars back on Moreland Ave. That is just two miles west of and only one exit over from Moreland Ave. But just moments later, I found a widely scattered crash with multiple vehicles on I-285/westbound (Inner Loop) at Jonesboro Road (Exit 55). I scanned the nearby cameras on I-285 and did not see the horsepower horde enter the freeway. These mostly late-model, American cars - the high horsepower sedans and coupes - are the prototypical muscle cars that have caused illegal stirs on the streets in recent years.Īt approximately 11:30 p.m., nearly all the cars that had been lining the road and jamming the Chevron parking lot departed at the same time. I pulled up the WSB Jam Cam at that intersection and, while I didn’t see burnouts any longer being done, I did see a gathering of several dozen vehicles.
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