Another day, another truck full of food overturns, crashes, and dumps its contents all over the place. First, there were hams, then there were chickens, and then beer, and now we’ve got eggs.
I’m not sure why this fascinates me as much as it does, but I guess I think it’s hilarious to see the roads and surrounding area covered in food. I know it’s horrible that so much food goes to waste, and that these incidents have tons of collateral victims from the drivers themselves, the GDOT people who have to investigate and clean things up, and the thousands of commuters who get slammed in traffic as a result, but the visuals amuse me regardless.
Ultimately, the fact that three of these wrecks have occurred in the exact same spot over the span of the last five months means that the DeKalb County I-285/I-20 interchange definitely needs some consideration of reconstruction to make things easier on tractor trailers, there had been a freak coincidence of the dumbest truckers in the world to have had to have gone on this interchange, or maybe it’s both.
Perhaps GDOT should consider putting a thousand rumble strips and flashing lights over a quarter mile before the turn, like they do on the I-285/I-75 interchange in Cobb County; there doesn’t appear to be catastrophic truck accidents on almost a monthly basis over there.
Just some… FOOD FOR THOUGHT PUN INTENDED.
