On Wednesday night there was a five car pile up in the 895 Harbor Tunnel, here in Baltimore. My mom and I were on the way to get my little cousins. They were going to come over to go Trick or Treating with my brother. My mom usually goes through the city, but this time we thought going through the tunnel would be faster. We thought wrong...
We play the toll plaza person our two dollars, move 25 feet and realize we aren't going anywhere. The traffic sign above said that the left lane was closed. That was our first reaction: the traffic was slowing down because the left lane was closed. Then after we sat there for about 20 minutes, we knew differently. The police officers stopped the cars after us. We were the very last car to go through the toll plaza.
We turned on the radio station, the traffic lady said that there was a stalled car. Right after she said that, an ambulance and two fire trucks pass by. Wow, a stalled car needs that much assistance. Then I get out of the car and take pictures of all of the traffic. A kind lady tells me that there was a five car pile up and one car had flipped over. Stupid radio stations...
90 minutes, one quarter of a tank of gas and 30 pictures later they finally decide to turn us around. We go around a building and have to end up playing 2 more extra dollars because we went through the opposite toll plaza. We ended up playing four dollars and we didn't even go through the tunnel. My mom decided to go through the toll without playing the extra two dollars. Today she got a bill from 202 dollars; a two hundred dollar fine and the extra two dollars is for the cost of the toll. My mom has called the traffic people (I do not know the technical term for it) and they refuse to give her the money back and is making her pay the two hundred dollars.
We did not even go through the tunnel, wasted 3 hours of time on the road, missed half of trick or treating and they want my mom to pay 202 dollars. They act like it was our fault that we came right after the accident. What do you guys think?
It does seem unfair, but perhaps your mom should have talked to someone before going through the opposite toll gate?
she couldn't of stopped. the traffic was moving.