Since half of freeway congestion is "incident related" (or that is often the "rule of thumb"), and many of the longer incidents involve fatalities, often gory (and the gorier seemed to slow down passing motoriest's even more), often while waiting forever on a Friday night, for the coroner to get around to coming out and declaring the poor SOB's dead, I once worked with the CHP on a "gore" screen, to set up next to the freeway, to speed up the traffic.........

I also worked on this with a former CHP Chief from back in the 60's who declared that when he was in charge, they all were "dead on arrival", since his reasoning was that his men weren't doctors. So they gather up the head and throw it on the stretcher, and whisk the "patient" away to the nearest emergency room.......

I was on a quit job when a transient tried to jump on some bad orders we where pulling up to set out for a run to Purdy, fell off, probably drunk, and apparently struck his head on a v switch assembly, and went into fits and died right there. That sure screwed up the early quit that night...... waiting for a coroner on a Friday night.........in another galaxy far far away.

As Rosanna Rosannadanna used to say, "it's alwzys something"!

Ah, for the good old days??????? When they were all "dead on arrival"........