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Re: This morn in Mont Co
In Article <3o2q2p$8rr@mojo.eng.umd.edu>, achern@io.avl.umd.edu (Alex
Chernyakov) wrote:
>This morning seemed like the beginning of the end of the world. On my
>way East on Randolph Road towards New Hampshire Avenue, two of the
>three west-bound lanes were closed off because of what seemed to be a
>bad school bus accident. The bus was up over the median with its entire
>front end hanging off to the side. I hope there were no kids involved--
>I drove by the incident at 8:35am.
>
>Then, after turning south onto New Hampshire I found myself behind
>4 motorcycle cops riding paired-- 2 x 2. I found this unusual, but
>when traffic came to a halt I realized something must have happened up
>ahead. Sure enough there were half a dozen police cars just north of the
>Route 29 interchange. Along the way, I saw police stationed about every
>hundred yards all the way up to Adelphi Road, where I turned left. Besides,
>the whole area was crawling with police from Mont Co, the state and from
>PG County. Does anyone know what was going on?
>
>All of this, of course, after having almost been hit by a drunk driver
>last night on Bel Pre Rd. He made a "turn" onto west-bround Bel Pre from
>the shopping center (at Layhill & Bel Pre). Unfortunately he didn't bother
>yielding to traffic, then proceeded to weave his way to Georgia Ave where
>he ran the red light (major intersection here), and continued west. I
>called the police at this point- hope they caught him before he killed
>himself, or someone else.
>
>-Alex Chernyakov.
>
Sounds like you had a horrendous 24 hours on the roads Alex!
You know, as I was coming in to work yesterday morning (May 1, about 9:30,
running a little late...) on Rte. 50 from Annapolis towards DC, I noticed
two "columns" of police cruisers heading east-bound. Each "column" was from
a different jurisdiction. I wondered what this was all about? My guess was
that maybe there was something going on at the State House in Annap.
Probably unrelated to Alex's observations.
Another response to Alex's posting suggested the Prez was moving about which
was certainly possible.
John
"And hey, hey, hey... Lets be careful out there"
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