Thursday Jinx Strikes Again

Since I started working from home on Fridays, Thursdays on the roads have been more of a nightmare than they were before. I'm actually off today because one of the kids is ill, but if I had tried to get to work, I would have encountered this incident, in which 3 people have died.

A southbound truck hit another truck that was on the hard shoulder (asleep at the wheel? It's around 1000 miles from Warsaw to Northampton) and then careened across the road, smashed through the central reservation, and hit a northbound car. "A man has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving."

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Update: BBC News is reporting that the motorway is still closed, and has been since 04:30 a.m. Southbound may reopen soon, but most alternative routes are completely gridlocked.

So glad I stayed home.