Drivers trapped on I-95 for hours; avoid the interstate
Alejandro Alvarez | aalvarez@wtop.com
https://wtop.com/traffic/2022/01/the-sto...-on-some-roads/
January 4, 2022, 10:59 AM


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What Interstate 95 looked like on Tuesday morning with drivers trapped for hours. (Courtesy NBC Washington)
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If you don’t want to end up in a nightmare situation, avoid Interstate 95 in Virginia.

A horrendous traffic jam that began during Monday morning’s record-breaking winter storm has grown steadily worse with plummeting overnight temperatures causing melting snow to refreeze. The WTOP Traffic Center tracked at least four trouble spots on I-95 alone from spinouts in icy conditions, each involving multiple spinouts including tractor-trailers.

Hundreds of vehicles have been at a standstill, some for almost 24 hours, shutting off their engines in frigid weather to conserve dwindling fuel, many with little to no food or water.

‘No food and no hope’: Drivers stranded on I-95 in Va. are cold, hungry and asking for help
Northam on I-95: ‘We’re doing everything that we can’
The Virginia Department of Transportation is in the process of guiding vehicles stopped on the interstate to nearby interchanges, where they can access alternate routes. WTOP’s Neal Augenstein reported stranded drivers are now getting off southbound I-95 at Exit 152 for Route 234/Dumfries Road, albeit slowly.-- excerpt, rest at link above --


You can hardly blame them, it never snows in northern Virginia in January.