Ed's Wild Ride Through West Virginia: It's a Jungle Out there!

Tragic accidents must come in threes..............yesterday morning I spent nearly two hours in a ten mile back up on the West Virginia turnpike.  A horrific accident where a semi-truck driver was killed and the turnpike was shut down.  I have been in long traffic jams before, obviously, but this one was horrible given the curves and hills of the West Virginia Turnpike.

But then, later that afternoon I got into another back-up on a secondary road from Princeton, West Virginia that leads to my undergraduate college town of Athens.  Again, another tragic accident where there was a fatality and where motorists were stranded on a road backed-up for five miles.  Nearly an hour and half, stop and go.............mostly stop.

Then coming home there is a 25 mile section of US-35 out of Charleston, West Virginia until one gets nearly to Point Pleasant, West Virginia (on the Ohio river) where I was involved in another over seven mile back-up that took one hour and fifteen minutes to navigate.   When I arrived and passed by the "scene of the accident" there was a semi totally wreaked and overturned on the highway.  Someone said: "the driver died at the scene."  Horrific.  The entire truck was burned to a crisp.

Three for three in two days!  Oh, my...........its a jungle out on the highways.