Considering the University of Maine it not really near any big ultimate cities, it is necessary to drive from 3+ hours to go to most tournaments. Most recently, UMaine's women's ultimate club went to Manheim, Pennsylvania to the tournament, "Steakfest". Knowing we had a long drive ahead of us, we all packed in a University Van and were on our way at approximately 3:30PM on March 18th. The drive was supposed to take around 11 hours; little did we know we would encounter numerous complications on our way. During our travels through Maine, NH, Massachusetts, and Connecticut we did not have any problems. In New York we got lost twice and got stuck in a traffic jam due to an accident. This accident was a caused by a drunk driver that “fell asleep and fan off the road to the left, hit and damaged 50 feet of guardrail, then crossed the highway and stopped facing east in the right lane”. The people in this accident were medevaced to the nearest hospital. After traffic about 45 minutes we were finally on our way once again.
Of course our night was not over yet, we got off the final exit to our hotel and saw an actual car accident happen. The vehicle went up an embankment and overturned. When this first happened we were a little confused as to why there were lights facing towards us that were directly on top of each other, we soon realized shortly that the car was on its side. A teammate and I ran out of our vehicle, helped the two individuals out of their car, and called 911. Likely, there were no injuries and the two were pain free.
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That is quite the drive to have! Especially because i know you said you didn't get home until really early monday morning and still went to school! That's really scary that you saw 2 accidents. Unfortuantly big citites have a lot more traffic accidents..when i stayed in fort lauderdale there was a major car accident nearby every single day. We're lucky i suppose that our traffics never to bad and therefore accidents are less likely to happen where we live. What time was the first accident? If i am correct that would have been a friday night so I guess it's expected that there is drunk drivers.
Wow - your drive sounds pretty intense. I drive home to NJ all the time, so I know how unfortunate the long drive through New England and the Tri State area can be, filled with lots of traffic and accidents. I can't imagine seeing an accident take place though- that must have been terrifying!
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