You know, I have a commute to work that isn't exactly a hop, skip and a jump.  Most of the time it isn't a problem, but every now and then, I get stuck in some three or four mile backup.  And, most of the time it's some little fender bender or a State Trooper with someone pulled over. Three or four mile backup...  What's up with that?

Well, you have to factor in the Rubbernecks to understand where the backup comes from.  Apparently these are people who have never seen:

a) Broken Glass
b) Dented cars
c) Dented cars and broken glass together
d) State Troopers out of their cruisers
e) Tow trucks

People, for the love of God, please lock your eyes straight ahead and proceed forward at or above the speed limit so that the traffic behind you may continue to flow without delay.  There's no need to study the accident scene.   Unless you've witnessed the bonehead who, in an attempt to pass three or four more cars before getting into the lane for the Mass Pike on-ramp (a subject for another WUWT article), cut off someone and caused an accident, then your eyewitness testimony is really unnecessary.

And since most of these rubbernecks have short attention spans, I'm going to keep this article short.  Just remember, proceed ahead, always using caution, but never slowing to watch the "pretty blue lights" flashing on the police car in the emergency lane.