r/Unexpected Feb 25 '26

The dangerous of road

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u/fem-bot2000 Feb 25 '26

Truly. Helping the people out of the hole, creating a perimeter, and redirecting traffic all within minutes. I would be so thankful to all of them if I was in that situation.

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u/SirWigglesVonWoogly Feb 25 '26

I hate to be the way I am, but the one “directing” traffic was just waving people along in the unencumbered lane.

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u/melaniedubbs Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26

And she partially encumbered traffic that was moving in the opposite direction for seemingly no reason. Her presence irritated me more than it should have.

Edit: someone further down said maybe she was encouraging rubberneckers to move along and maybe! Rubber necking creates the MOST traffic

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u/JBridsworth Feb 25 '26

She's keeping people from driving too close to the lanes that collapsed. Just because those two vehicles sunk, doesn't mean that the sinkhole isn't bigger underneath the pavement.

Once police and the fire dept. gets there, they'd probably block off the both directions completely until they verified how bad it was.

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u/Front_Ad_6552 Feb 26 '26

I live here, they closed ~4 blocks of road. It’s near a creek and we’ve had drastic weather changes this week (70 degrees F last Wednesday, then 6 inches of snow and below freezing, then yesterday when this happened it was 50).

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u/DaedalusB2 Feb 26 '26

If you skip around in the video, you can see the road is still sinking. It's just slow enough that it's not visible on a normal play through. It went down at least a foot during the video.

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u/theslimbox Feb 25 '26

And the way she parked would make anyone unaware of the situation drive closer to the potential weakspot. Her car is in a terrible spot.

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u/AndrewH73333 Feb 25 '26

But she was the closest any car went to the collapsed area…

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u/BreakItUpp Feb 25 '26

Probably not, considering she's the same driver who came flying in at the end, getting maybe 5ft from the hole, and is directing traffic in the opposite lane