I've been a passenger in a car with a driver who pays 100% of his attention to what his GPS says and absolutely zero attention to road signs and traffic conditions, and it can be a truly terrifying experience.
Reminds me of the scene in "Idiocracy" where a car is shown driving off a half complete freeway ramp and it lands on a big pile of other crashed cars. I swear that movie is a documentary.
I drive a truck in East Chicago and am very familiar with the former Riley Road Cline ave IN 912 interchange. I do not know how they got on to Cline Ave. The road has orange signs as well as full lane barriers from retaining wall to retaining wall and concrete barriers after that at the only location (Calumet ave) that still has access to the ground. Most of Cline Ave on that side of the Indiana Harbor Channel is on embankment or elevated as its makes it way thru the BP Whiting Refinery tank farm. He would have to had crash thru the wooden barriers and signs, and get around the concrete barriers to get anywhere near the edge. That whole section has had issues from the very beginning. Allegations that short cuts were made during construction, using sub standard concrete in the roadbed and support legs, the construction accident that "domonoed" the support legs. One set of support legs failed and fell over into the next set and knocked them over, that went for 4 sets of legs. To numerous serious and fatal accidents, to deterioration
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