To the lady who said “what was the point?” That object could’ve cause a collision and a far worse backup than the officer stopping traffic for a few seconds to move it to the shoulder. CalTrans will be out with a cleanup at some point crew to clear the shoulder and median of debris.
@@salt1733 unfortunately, in CA protocol is for officers to throw it to the shoulder (or off the road entirely) and a CalTrans litter crew will get it when they’re assigned to that stretch of the highway.
i've experienced this when driving to santa barbara. a cop on a motorcycle got in the front and started swerving like that. we all slowly followed him. he was able to do a drive by on the piece on the ground since he was on a motorcycle. what i mean by drive by is that he was able to scoop it up while driving.
Ya know the funny part, you are not even kidding. I remember when I worked emergency services back in New York, I had seen the traffic break performed by CHP. We had a disabled vehicle in the center lane of I 95, needed to clear it and so we tried to do the traffic break. Literally, every single vehicle simply drove around us and the moment we stopped, it was like the lane were in was closed but the rest of the freeway just kept right on going.
@@aucutt79 I'm assuming that the department thinks that a vehicle in park would have distracting lights to an officer on a traffic stop so they programmed the lights to stay steady from the front. Most likely however, there is a front flash override to keep the lights going if there is a special need.
@@DBR00all California cars have to have at least 1 red light steady red and not flash. In Sonoma county, CA. All the lights facing forwards on all city police department cars, sonoma county sheriff cars and chp cars stay steady red and blue when the car is in park.
First time I seen this was on Sept.11 '01 coming through Goergia.. Had no clue what was going on. But noticed planes were landing alot. None were taking off
That's usually what it is and why they do this. Something fell into the highway. Some idiot driver hits that, goes out of control then you have a accident.
What the Hell did he throw on the shoulder? I’ve never seen a traffic break in my life. Certainly not in Birmingham, AL. I don’t live but an hour and a half from downtown Atlanta but I’ve never seen them do it there either. Which would be a good thing, since their traffic is just ridiculous.
One NEVER knows Where, or What "trash" has been.... Could have come from a site, or container that had toxic waste amongst it's contents ..... ALWAYS act on the side of SAFETY !!!!
All that for that!? They should see whats on the side of an Indiana highway, tires, chairs, pieces of trailers and boats... and it NEVER gets picked up! Ever. But hey, they got low taxes...
As someone who almost died cause someone left a ladder in the middle of 580 in Oakland, they are lucky someone came to move it at all tbh. It's stupidly dangerous to leave yourself exposed on the freeway like that, who knows what drunk driving idiot is gonna come plowing down the shoulder trying to skip all that traffic.
@@franklyspeaking4480 Nah no accident ended happening, atleast not to me. I saw the ladder in the lane left of mine and traveling in that lane was a lifted up f150 driven by a man with presumably a room-temperature IQ texting and driving, and if I hadn't gotten out of his way before he swerved into my lane we would have wrecked, but we didnt.
Not a Round Robin. This is just a traffic break. A RR is where they have multiple units doing the breaks at the same spot. They do not stop traffic. They just keep a unit doing a rolling break to keep traffic at a slower speed through an area. When they get past the area, they exit and go back to the next entrance before the incident and get back on and do it again. Usually they have 2-4 doing it, when one if getting off, one is in the middle, another is just getting on. A RR is to keep traffic flowing, but at a slow speed.
.It seems a little dramatic but the problem is that if someone sees that at the last second they will swerve and that can cause a major wreck. People have died over the last things although I'll tell you this it is amazing what I have seen on LA freeways. The strangest thing so far has been a full-size upright piano at the 170/5 interchange
A traffic break, which is where typically a state trooper will weave to slow traffic to create a "break" for emergency crews working an accident or trying to clear a disabled vehicle, or in this case, a cushion that was in the middle of traffic. Typically its only to slow traffic so there isn't stopped traffic leading to more wrecks, but in this case it was to actually stop traffic to clear debris.
Yehh Where I live they don’t do that…. Well on for funeral escorts……they probably should let people know that …I’m mean out of out of state…. I would freak out…
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Ur insanely dumb this probably caused a 5 min delay and if a motorcycle were to hit this doing 70, they would literally die. Dead, no more. A car can swerve, cause a wreck. And you are doin an SMH for the HP trying to keep that from happening while not getting ran over himself by speeding traffic.. get a life mate.
Lol....Cali drivers don't look past their hood. Driver reacts last seconds swerves without looking then bam you have a chain reaction accident 🤦 Now you have a 4 hour long traffic jam. Get it?
And if they leave it there some idiot swerves last minute to avoid it. Hitting another vehicle, with one of them rolling over. Now the freeway is closed for possibly 3-5 hours
Wonderful waste of tax payer dollars at work. Instead of having the first city employee who encounters the trash, to pick it up and collect it, we need two city employees or more now to collect it! Yay savings!
That's about as idiotic as saying the mailman should be handing out parking tickets just because he happened to stumble on parking violations. CHP is not trash collection and isn't equipped to perform that function. It's not rocket science.
