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Old 06-12-2014, 10:44 AM
 
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I get on the 101 at 56th street. Today when I drove down the onramp, I saw the strangest thing...not a single car. Not in front of me, not coming from behind. As if aliens had abducted every single car on the road. Very weird. I wish I had snapped a picture as I was driving on the empty lanes.

There was an accident one exit back at Tatum that closed the freeway for quite some time, several coworkers were over an hour late for work. Traffic was re-routed by police the wrong way down off ramps to clear out as many cars as they could. It was a multi-car pile up with a rollover.

Anyone else caught in the snarl this morning?
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Old 06-12-2014, 10:51 AM
 
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Lol, that happened to me once on the freeway here. Was very eerie and I never found out why the freeway was empty. A couple cars finally got on once I passed a couple more on-ramps. Traffic was moving in the opposite direction but in my direction I was the only car for as far as I could see. I suspect, like you, there was an accident behind me and they had closed the freeway.
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Old 06-12-2014, 10:51 AM
 
Location: Chandler, AZ
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Nope but I was listening to it on KTAR...that and the Semi Truck that killed a bicyclist.
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Old 06-12-2014, 11:00 AM
 
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I was listening to the radio at home before I left as well as in the car. I heard nothing about it, so I wonder if it just happened shortly before I got there. I wish the 101 was like that every day!

Yes, a very eerie feeling of being alone on the road!
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Old 06-12-2014, 11:12 AM
 
Location: Metro Phoenix, AZ USA
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Nope but I was listening to it on KTAR...that and the Semi Truck that killed a bicyclist.
I went by near where the bicycle incident happened. Elliot still closed west of Priest as of about 9:00. A tragic example of why bicyclists are not supposed to ride against traffic. The truck driver didn't see the cyclist, and this would not have happened if the cyclist had been on the correct side of the road.

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Old 06-12-2014, 11:19 AM
 
Location: Chandler, AZ
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I went by near where the bicycle incident happened. Elliot still closed west of Priest as of about 9:00. A tragic example of why bicyclists are not supposed to ride against traffic. The truck driver didn't see the cyclist, and this would not have happened if the cyclist had been on the correct side of the road.
I constantly wonder why bicyclists don't read up on the laws that govern their operation on streets. But then again I know of lots of drivers that get irritated with them when a bicycle is in "their" lane or one that runs a red light. Just a tragic loss of life.

I didn't hear if there were any fatalities with the 101 accident this morning though...one car was supposedly flipped against the median with a truck next to it and the other 2 cars ran head on into the off ramp wall?

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Old 06-12-2014, 05:53 PM
 
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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I work near 101 & Raintree in Scottsdale. Lots of people were late today.
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