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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
Well how many kilometers did the truck actually drive in the wrong lane for? If it is 15-20....than yeah, they didn't have time to close the road off and get it blocked off, at least not the West end...they should have picked say 97th street and tried to block any access they could heading West, but you probably are looking at 10 minutes to get that all set up and thats the time it would take to go that distance. If it was the 40 or so that some claimed than they absolutely had time to cut off the West end of the city and block off most of the access to the road and get something done. Fart I only lived in Edmonton for two years and I can think of that off the top of my head....once reported that theres a truck going the wrong way...they easily can act on that right away.
I'm not blaming the Police for this...rather I was skeptical about the 40km thing, and I'm also skeptical that it was a pure 100% accident. Could the guy have been in a diabetic shock where his judgement was out of whack and he was acting crazy or in a state where he's in the wrong lane and didn't think to just stop the truck and get out of the lane and into the median...yeah, I could buy that. I don't think he was 100% passed out and blindly going down the road for 40km as was speculated in some of the reports.
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Agreed 40km does seem unlikely. Even if it was an accident or on purpose it would be next to impossible to drive that long and not hit something. You know when you are walking in a mall straight at someone and you both take those stutter steps in the same direction a coupe times to avoid each other but still bump into one another? That same thing would happen on the highway well before the 40 minute mark.I don't know enough about the medical aspect to even speculate, but I would be interested to hear what the cause/motivation was.
One night I was heading back from a pub and I was little (read: a lot) drunk and we were heading back to my friends place in Chestermere. I was in the back seat telling, I'm sure what I thought was a very interesting story. The passenger was also drunk, but the driver was sober. We were in the right lane and a car went by us in the left lane going the opposite direction. Both of them stopped listening to my story and asked each other "did a car just go by us in that lane?" thinking they both must have saw wrong. Drunk me was confused why they weren't listening to my riveting story but were instead focusing on traffic. I asked, "So what, a car went by? What's the big deal? The driver said, "this is a divided highway." "Oh. Ohhhhhhh! that could have been bad."
