Remember that level in Super Mario Brothers 3 where that sun is trying to go after Mario? This is the case this week with Mother Nature as temperatures flirted with 100 degrees with heat index between 115 and 120. Tuesday afternoon during the hottest part of the day, one of the semis failed to navigate the westbound lanes between the river bridge and Riverview and it resulted in an epic fail at a bad time of the day – just as the evening peak started.
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It never fails that the start of the school term (most Riverbend schools started last week, North County started this week) tends to bring out the biggest and baddest incidents on 270, and this crash was no exception.
Westbound traffic backed up to Route 3 as the westbound drivers had to limp through on the ramps to and from Riverview (dealing with the 4 way stop that is there) while eastbound was delayed back to 367. The incident is not cleared until 5:15, which was approximately 2 hours after the incident allegedly happened at or shortly after 3 PM.
Chain of Rocks/I-270 